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Daniel Dale
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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.
11:37 AM · Sep 1, 2018
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Daniel Dale
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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
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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.
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Daniel Dale
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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.
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Anyway, this is an unusual thing to do, but this is an unusual situation. That’s all.

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Toronto Star reporter's response to Donny's idiotic smears of Bloomberg, which you'd need to be as stupid as Whell to believe. Lots of Whells still out there, sadly.