Daniel Dale, the Toronto Star reporter who published off-record comments from President Donald Trump to Bloomberg reporters, in which Trump said he would not compromise with Canada in trade negotiations, denied Saturday that the Bloomberg reporters themselves leaked the comments.
Dale said he was making the denial to combat Trump’s accusations Friday that Bloomberg’s reporters had broken the off-record arrangement.
The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman, citing unnamed “people close to the White House,” said Friday that her sources had “raised [the] possibility that Trump ordered it put out.”
I’d said I wasn’t going to say anything about my source for the quotes Trump made off the record to Bloomberg.
However, I don’t want to be party to the president’s smearing of excellent, ethical journalists. So I can say this: none of the Bloomberg interviewers was my source.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 1, 2018
Trump is calling Jennifer Jacobs, Margaret Talev and their editor liars. They aren’t, and they didn’t violate their “off the record” promise to him. I don’t want to be a party to his attempt to make fellow reporters look deceitful.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 1, 2018
So: I’m not going to engage in an “OK if it isn’t them than who was it” game, but the president is incorrect when he claims he was wronged by his interviewers.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 1, 2018
Maybe I should have expected the president would confirm a Toronto Star story (!) and use this to go after Bloomberg reporters, but I did not – thought it was likely he’d either a) ignore it or b) or call it fake news and go after my own ethics, which would’ve been fine.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 1, 2018
Anyway, this is an unusual thing to do, but this is an unusual situation. That’s all.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 1, 2018
I’m not beating myself up, actually – I’m very happy with the story, don’t think I did anything wrong. Just didn’t expect the president to smear Bloomberg reporters rather than me, and want to deal with it. https://t.co/84NFGqiPay
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 1, 2018
Cadet Bone SpursJohn Barron",“John Miller” or maybe it was “David Dennison”.leaked them, right?And then tRump went off to dig himself deep into a sand trap because this past week was all about John McCain.
sad
The shockin’ aw:
" Haberman, citing unnamed “people close to the White House,” said Friday that her sources had “raised [the] possibility that Trump ordered it put out.” "
… as I commented here at the time.
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Does anyone actually believe that Donald J. Fucking Trump cares about rules such as the “off the record rule?” The fucking guy has not disclosed his Tax Returns. The fucking guy paid hush money to his mistresses during the last month of the Presidential campaign he won. The fucking guy conspired with the Russian Intelligence Service to win the electoral votes he needed since he knew he was going to lose the popular vote. And he is bitching about someone breaking the off the record rule?
Trump leaks OTR in order to gin up faux outrage so he can scream fake news. He created his own fake news to distract from McCain’s memorial. He is a wretched excuse for a human being.
Yup.
One thing he has preternatural ability for is managing/manipulating the media.
I think this is a situation in which reporters should feel comfortable burning their source. Because it is very obvious a statement was made OTR, then leaked, in order to smear the media.