Trump calls for Pulitzer journalists to be stripped of award for election coverage

• Published date: 05 October 2021
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The two newspapers received the award in 2018 "for deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nations' understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect's transition team, and his eventual administration," according to the Pulitzer Committee.

In a letter addressed to Dr. Bud Kliment, interim administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, Trump said the awards were granted based on false reporting and a "complete lack of evidence." He also said the coverage relied heavily on anonymous sources, meaning "the public was deprived of an independent means of assessing their credibility, their potential for political bias, and the source of their knowledge."

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