Newsweek fires "reporter" over fake story slamming Trump on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving in Afghanistan with POTUS
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Newsweek has terminated Jessica Kwong, the so-called reporter who penned a phony story about President Trump in which she wrote: "How is Trump spending Thanksgiving? Tweeting, golfing and more." She didn't even have the courtesy of using the president's honorific.

As it turned out, of course, President Trump secretly traveled to Afghanistan and spent Thanksgiving with the troops stationed there.

Newsweek told the Washington Examiner that its story has been fully corrected, Kwong "has been terminated," and that it would take further action if an investigation proves it necessary.

Have you noticed that whenever a liberal publication makes an error, they always make it in the same direction? It's always against the president or conservatives to whom they are writing about. They never make an error that favors the right that needs to be corrected. Never.

Newsweek claimed that they investigated the failures that led to the publication of the inaccurate report that President Trump spent Thanksgiving tweeting and golfing rather than visiting troops in Afghanistan. The story has been corrected, and the journalist responsible has been terminated, they said, adding that they will continue to review their processes and, if required, take further action.

Don't hold your breath, however.

Newsweek editors corrected the story on Thanksgiving Day after the president's surprise trip was made public. What is amazing is how their readers either don't realize how far slanted to the left their reporting is, or how they are willing to believe anything negative about Trump without verifying the facts.

Fake News reporter Jessica Kwong

An editor's note at the bottom of the story reads, "This story has been substantially updated and edited at 6:17 pm EST to reflect the president's surprise trip to Afghanistan."

At the bottom of the story. The very bottom where many lefties are unable to hold their attention for that length of time.

The story's headline now reads, "How did Trump spend Thanksgiving? Tweeting, golfing—and surprising U.S. troops in Afghanistan."

It's a sneaky way of minimizing the visit. They could have just as easily have titled the story: "How did Trump spend Thanksgiving? Tweeting, playing golf, sitting on the toilet and also visiting people in Afghanistan."

Kwong said her story was an "honest mistake." Of course that's just as accurate as the story itself. Yes, it was a story, not a factual report. If journalism is supposed to be based on facts, on observations and not creative writing, then it was definitely not an honest mistake--it was a lie based on what she believed he would do.

On Twitter, Donald Trump Jr. said the inaccurate reporting was not a mistake, but rather reflects a consistent pattern of how the mainstream media report on the president.

"It wasn't an 'honest mistake' you tried to dunk on Trump and ended up dunking on yourself because you couldn't resist. Notice how there's never been a story that broke in Trump's favor & had to be corrected the other way? These aren't mistakes, they are a very consistent pattern," Trump Jr. said.

Kwong has not yet responded to her canning but CNN is taking a closer look into her resume.

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