ProPublica hit back on Monday after White House press secretary Sean Spicer dismissed its reporting on a newly surfaced detail in President Donald Trump’s trust agreement as an unsubstantiated claim from a “left-wing blog.”
ProPublica on Monday reported that Trump added a clause to the agreement that allows him to withdraw funds at any time and from any of his businesses without publicly disclosing that transaction.
“I’m not aware that there was any change,” Spicer said when asked about the report. “Just because a left-wing blog makes the point of something changing doesn’t mean it actually happened. I’m not aware that there was ever a change in the trust.”
“Since we’re actually in the biz of facts, we figured we’d respond,” ProPublica tweeted Monday evening.
ProPublica went on to link Spicer to the revised clause in the trust document, its report on the revision and previous ProPublica reporting critical of the administrations of both Trump and President Barack Obama.
“So any other facts you’d like to know, @seanspicer?” the thread concluded.
1/ So @seanspicer just called us a “left-wing blog.” Since we’re actually in the biz of facts, we figured we’d respond w/ a few…
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 2/ @seanspicer was trying to knock our story that Trump’s trust doc was revised to say he can take $ frm biz anytime https://t.co/xcohyMmoRc
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 3/ @seanspicer said he’s “not aware of any change in the trust.” And he then said this: https://t.co/44Rj2EZxDc pic.twitter.com/lrQpWkZjKh
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 4/ The Trump trust doc was revised & signed Feb. 10. Here you go, @seanspicer: https://t.co/f1SgoNeIJ1 pic.twitter.com/9odXRrFEjV
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 5/ We do no-surprises journalism. We told the Trump Org & WH what we knew and gave them time to explain.They didn’t. https://t.co/pYfcdEp64W pic.twitter.com/paZfZWr4W1
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 6/ What we do is hold people in power accountable, no matter who they are, or what names they call us. We do it with facts. Like…
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 7/ The fact that Tom Price bought drug company stock same day he pushed policy that could help the company. https://t.co/nica3s6oi1
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 8/ The fact that Trump has quietly installed officials across the government to be his eyes and ears: https://t.co/UhSNXaGwBH
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 9/ The fact that Jared Kushner isn’t actually separating himself from his business empire: https://t.co/ZNFNVOkfdL
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 10/ Or the fact that 5 top Trump officials have made false statements to Congress:https://t.co/xQGhQwEWaF
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 11/ And yes, our job always has been and will be holding *all* those in power accountable.
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 12/ So, we wrote about fact that Obama caved to big banks and didn’t deliver on his promises to help homeowners: https://t.co/DnhEUzJIoP
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 13/ We wrote about former Obama officials lobbying to push through a merger that could make flying more miserable: https://t.co/coXWQ7PInF
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 14/ And wrote about how Obama was falling short on his own promises to grant pardons. https://t.co/eYO0xJLcT5
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 15/ So any other facts you’d like to know, @seanspicer?
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
Dammit
I’ve been meaning to give em a donation.
I hope they also send him a link to the LA Times editorial from yesterday and today…only changing Trump’s name for Spicers. Just another pathological little liar.
Now that’s how you do it!
In cartoon parlance Wiley E. Coyote just had the anvil land on him.
Just because Spicey says anything does necessarily mean its true. More likely, it is entirely false.