Yahoo depicts president as lawless egomaniac in misleading headline: "Trump: 'I'll do whatever I want' during Senate impeachment trial"
Headline could have stressed instead: 'I'll do whatever they [Mitch and Lindsey] want to do, it doesn't matter,' as Trump made clear to the media
RenewAmerica staff
In an obvious distortion of the truth in an attempt to embarrass President Donald Trump, Yahoo ran an article Friday with the headline: "Trump: 'I'll do whatever I want' during Senate impeachment trial."
The sensational headline was featured front and center at Drudge.
In reality, the president was weighing merely whether to press for a long or a short impeachment trial in the GOP-controlled Senate, and he meant nothing like what the misleading headline trumpeted.
The headline – which was contradicted by the article itself – ignored Trump's clarification, "I'll do whatever they [Mitch and Lindsey] want to do, it doesn't matter."
Wholly unlike what was sensationally headlined by Yahoo (and Drudge), Trump was entirely reasonable about how he planned to proceed with his defense, and made clear he was willing to do whatever Senate Republican leaders preferred, rather than what he preferred.
Since the writer of the piece is an editor at Yahoo, it's fair to assume the writer chose the misleading headline.
Here's the offending piece of classic anti-Trump fake news, which includes a video of Trump's remarks.
Bio of David Knowles, editor at Yahoo News (Yahoo.com)
December 14, 2019
In an obvious distortion of the truth in an attempt to embarrass President Donald Trump, Yahoo ran an article Friday with the headline: "Trump: 'I'll do whatever I want' during Senate impeachment trial."
The sensational headline was featured front and center at Drudge.
In reality, the president was weighing merely whether to press for a long or a short impeachment trial in the GOP-controlled Senate, and he meant nothing like what the misleading headline trumpeted.
The headline – which was contradicted by the article itself – ignored Trump's clarification, "I'll do whatever they [Mitch and Lindsey] want to do, it doesn't matter."
Wholly unlike what was sensationally headlined by Yahoo (and Drudge), Trump was entirely reasonable about how he planned to proceed with his defense, and made clear he was willing to do whatever Senate Republican leaders preferred, rather than what he preferred.
Since the writer of the piece is an editor at Yahoo, it's fair to assume the writer chose the misleading headline.
Here's the offending piece of classic anti-Trump fake news, which includes a video of Trump's remarks.