Early media accounts of a phone call between former President Donald Trump and a top Georgia investigator contained false quotes, prompting at least one major media outlet to issue a correction.
The Wall Street Journal first published audio last week of the roughly six-minute call on Dec. 23 between Trump and Frances Watson, the chief investigator of the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, in which he urged her to look for fraud in mail-in ballots in Fulton County, where much of Atlanta is located.
Indeed, Trump can be heard telling Watson, who was in the middle of conducting an audit of voting results in Cobb County, that he won the 2020 election and that she would be "praised" when the "right answer comes out." He also insisted "something bad happened." However, the audio shows that early reports in January about that call, based on anonymous sourcing, misquoted Trump. In those reports, Trump was quoted as urging Watson to "find the fraud," and if she did so, the investigator would be a "national hero."
the Washington Post stuck a long correction note to the top its report: