Edward-Isaac Dovere, hack writer for leftist site The Atlantic, continues to make the allegation that Rep. Matt Gaetz’s tweet to Michael Cohen was somehow an order from Trump, claiming that Trump called Gaetz from Hanoi.
President Trump called @mattgaetz last night from Hanoi to talk the Cohen testimony and the threats (since rescinded) Gaetz made about Cohen.
"I was happy to do it for you. You just keep killing it," Gaetz was heard telling him.
(Gaetz told me he doesn't discuss calls w/POTUS)— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 28, 2019
And a screenshot for when (if?) he ever deletes the tweet:
Call happened at just before 9 PM last night DC time, which means that the president was making this phone call as he headed into his meetings with Kim for the day (Hanoi is 12 hours ahead), which of course seem to have fallen apart not long after https://t.co/XmG3ywhEDz
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) February 28, 2019
The problem for Dovere is that his claims are untrue and are debunked.
Gaetz was talking to Governor DeSantis about a different matter, with witness accounts and phone records to back it up.
DeSantis spox: “The governor can confirm those were the words that were spoken to him”
— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) March 2, 2019
How has @TheAtlantic not demanded retraction of this tweet from its reporter?
1 – it didn’t happen
2 – no sourcing
2 – contradicted on-record by me & @GovRonDeSantis, confirmed by @MarcACaputo
3 – contradicted by phone records reported by @anaceballos_ #FakeNews @HowardKurtz https://t.co/lOH1Uf7YwV— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) March 3, 2019
But that doesn’t stop Dovere from doubling down:
Here’s the account offered of what happened, a day and a half after first being asked and not denying what was posed then: https://t.co/pw9wYUsVfY
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) March 2, 2019
Also screencapped for when (if?) he ever deletes it:
Devore, who’s also gotten into heated exchanges with democrats, such as Alan Grayson, refuses to retract this.
Maybe he’s just trying to be the next Kurt Eichenwald, another journalist who promotes suspect news and creates controversy to boost his own profile.
Even other leftist sites have chimed in to set the record straight, namely Huffington Post.
And then there’s this…
Other leftist fake news sites continue to parrot the false account, such as CNN, who had Dovere on the air, along with Avery Friedman, to discuss the matter.
Travis Gettys, of Raw Story, also perpetuated the fake story, and his story was echoed in Salon. The Miami Herald published a piece that reads more like the delusional rantings of someone’s 2 bit blog.
Unfortunately, even Daily Caller fell for the hoax. Predictably, rags such as Rolling Stone, Politico (Dovere’s former employer), and, of course, MSNBC.
This is how fake news spreads throughout the mainstream media.
