Looks like Judy Woodruff’s ‘apology’ for DOOZY lie about Trump came with a big fat lie too (2024)

Judy Woodruff of PBS News is in trouble once more, this time for outright lying to cover her own flailing behind.

As previously reported, she accused former President Donald Trump of having pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a recent phone call into not accepting a ceasefire deal with Hamas because the deal would have made Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign look good.

“The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the Prime Minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign,” she said last week.

Listen:

This is a bald faced lie. PBS needs to apologize and pull Judy off the air. pic.twitter.com/6opHGTcU5N

— @amuse (@amuse) August 21, 2024

After both Trump and Netanyahu denied the report, Woodruff backtracked with an apology on X.

“I want to clarify my remarks on the PBS News special on Monday night about the ongoing cease-fire talks in the Middle East,” she wrote. “As I said, this was not based on my original reporting; I was referring to reports I had read, in Axios and Reuters, about former President Trump having spoken to the Israeli Prime Minister.”

“In the live TV moment, I repeated the story because I hadn’t seen later reporting that both sides denied it. This was a mistake and I apologize for it,” she added.

Look:

I want to clarify my remarks on the PBS News special on Monday night about the ongoing cease fire talks in the Middle East. As I said, this was not based on my original reporting; I was referring to reports I had read, in Axios and Reuters, about former President Trump having…

— Judy Woodruff (@JudyWoodruff) August 21, 2024

Now notice what she’d written about how her own reporting had been based on what she’d read “in Axios and Reuters.” According to journalist Yashar Ali, there’s a big problem with this excuse of hers.

In a tweet published Wednesday, he noted that “Axios and Reuters never reported that Netanyahu was being urged by Trump not to take a hostage deal.” They “just reported that Trump and Netanyahu spoke about Gaza.”

“But to be sure, I went back to check a few things and also asked Axios for comment,” he continued. “First, the Reuters report that Woodruff cited was just a pickup of an Axios story. The Axios story Woodruff cited had been updated to reflect Netanyahu’s denial that he and Trump ever discussed Gaza and a hostage deal.”

“A spokesperson for Axios confirmed that they NEVER reported that Trump was said to have been discouraging Netanyahu from taking the deal. Not only were Woodruff’s on-air comments inaccurate, but her apology tweet also said that Axios (and Reuters) reported something that they never did,” he added.

So where the hell did she come up with the rest of her accusation?

I wanted to follow up on this Judy Woodruff clip after I confirmed something.

In this clip, Woodruff said that reporting—without citing which reporting—had revealed that former President Trump had been pushing Prime Minister Netanyahu not to accept a hostage deal because that… pic.twitter.com/JpVIegctwE

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) August 28, 2024

Critics for their part believe Woodruff just made it up out of thin air.

“She literally made it up,” one critic tweeted.

“She made it up out of her deranged mind,” another critic added.

Critics also wonder how the hell it is that professional so-called “journalists” can get away with such big lies.

Look at some of the burgeoning criticism below:

Notice the false allegations were on air, but the apology and admission were simply a tweet/post.

— Sofa King MAGA (@jarmaug) August 28, 2024

HOW is any journalist still making bush league mistakes like this?? At this critical time?? And a couple in rapid succession, no less!

— Are We Better Off? (@BetterOff2024) August 28, 2024

Like Trump or hate him, the media lies need to stop. At some point accountability needs to be re-injected to journalism. A lot of people (and I mean A LOT of people) need a reckoning.

— SOMETHiNG WiCKED (@som3thingwicked) August 28, 2024

You are far to kind to the malignant liar @JudyWoodruff … It wasn’t “inaccurate” to report what she did, it was a deliberate calculated lie specifically to inflict harm on Trump. She deserves to be fired.

— MistyNan1966 (@Brody20132) August 28, 2024

Her apology is useless anyway because she said it to a large audience that was just watching the DNC convention, and she got what she wanted . A false statement that those watching will believe and probably will never see or hear her apology.

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