President Donald Trump called out the Washington Post and one of its political reporters, Dave Weigel, berating them both for an incident in December 2017 in which Weigel tweeted a misleading image of the crowd at a Trump rally.
“He got there four hours early. He then sent out a note — something to the effect of not very good crowd size — I never saw it. I don’t follow the guy,” Trump told a cheering crowd at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland.
“He got there four or five hours early,” Trump continued, “He took pictures and you know who really got even? Our people, because they were incensed.