The Associated Press, fresh off explaining a deleted tweet about what the Fresno shooting suspect said before replacing it with another inaccurate take, tried to do a little real-time fact-checking of President Trump’s statement after a shooting in Paris today:
Trump calls Paris shooting "terrorist attack," Paris police have not yet announced motive. https://t.co/G1VksRptk6
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 20, 2017
Does the AP really want to start going there again?
It's not a terrorist attack until the media does everything they can possibly do to frame as something else. #parishttps://t.co/dPk0xDEl3a
— 365conservative (@365conservative) April 20, 2017
Attaboy, @ap, way to set things straight! Why would he say it's terrorism? Other than the police said so and suspect was known to them.
— Carl Gustav (@CaptYonah) April 20, 2017
We're still playing this game? Really?#ParisAttack https://t.co/ecZFPcmEIL
— Chris Moore (@Moorestweet) April 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/OzgurAkayoglu/status/855159299378737152
https://twitter.com/C00P_33/status/855159111390031872
The AP should have waited a few minutes for the AP’s reports that show Trump wasn’t wrong:
BREAKING: French prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation into the Champs-Elysees attack on Paris police officers.
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 20, 2017
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BREAKING: Officials say the suspect in the attack on Paris police officers previously was flagged as an extremist.
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 20, 2017
BREAKING: French President Francois Hollande says he is convinced the circumstances of the Paris shooting points to terrorist act.
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 20, 2017
BREAKING: The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack that killed a Paris police officer.
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 20, 2017
Somebody at the AP’s having a bad week in the real world.
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