The Associated Press (AP) retracted a story Tuesday claiming that U.S. National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard publicly referred to President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin as “very good friends.”
The outlet withdrew its story titled, “Gabbard Says Trump And Putin Are ‘Very Good Friends’ Focused On Strengthening Ties,” before publishing a correction clarifying that Gabbard was referring to Trump’s friendship with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the AP announced.
“This story was updated on Mar. 17, 2025, to delete erroneous reporting that U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin “are very good friends,’” the AP wrote in an editor’s note at the bottom of the story.
A spokesperson for the AP told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the initial report was removed from their site because “it did not meet [their] standards.”
After the initial story’s removal, the AP published a corrected story with Gabbard telling NDTV on Monday that Trump is “looking forward to success” ahead of his upcoming call with the Russian president Tuesday afternoon. more
THEY JUST WON’T STOP WITH THE BULL SHIT!!!!! This has got to be wearing them out, because we keep winning. Little personalities like this will never understand that what Putin and Trump have is even more important than friendship. The have mutual respect for each other. Or maybe they do understand that and that’s what drives them over the edge.
“it did not meet [their] standards.”
In this case, it did.
“Get the headline out there, we can print the retraction later” – the legacy media.
Doesn’t matter – they’re still not getting their WH credentials back.
If the Associated Press is associated, who is the Associated Press associated with? If the Associated Press is associated with associates, who are the associates associated with that are associated with the Associated Press? If the Associated Press is an association of associated associates, do all the associated associates associate with the Associated Press?
^^^^ After reading that I have that song Never My Love rolling around in my head. Thanks Pal.
@ Anonymous Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 17:15 at 5:15 pm, Sort of like one of Uncle Al’s alliterations….
@ Bad_Brad Wednesday, 19 March 2025, 17:21 at 5:21 pm, LMAO! Winner winner chicken dinner!
𝓒𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓴𝓮𝓻𝓫𝓪𝓫𝔂
I think you and I are the only two that got it. Sometimes I drive faster than I can see.
PS, that was damn good music back then.