“There is no doubt that the committee awarded the Pulitzer to those media on the basis of the false and fabricated information they had published.” This is what we read in the letter that Donald Trump sent to the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, the prestigious American journalism prize, to ask that the prizes awarded in 2018 to New York Time and Washington Post for their investigations on Russiagate be withdrawn.
In the letter to Marjorie Miller, the former president threatens a lawsuit and states that those awards are “a distortion of the facts and a defamation of my person that will lead to a legal appeal if the committee does not convince itself to do the right thing” . The investigations into Russian interference in the presidential elections he won in 2016, continues Trump, are “based on blatant fake news, derogatory and defamatory”.
It is not the first time that Trump has asked the committee to revoke the awards and last October, at its first outcry, the Pulitzer replied that there is “a process for the evaluation of appeals against past awards”. But now Trump returns to the attack by stating that the committee “has an obligation to share with me the working status of this” alleged review process.
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