Editor’s note: This post has been updated. See below.
Megyn Kelly’s big interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin airs at 8 p.m. on NBC tonight, and it’s already being spun.
Here’s the headline in a tweet teasing the premiere:
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/871508680927305728
Except, that’s not really what Putin said … at all:
https://twitter.com/27khv/status/871514388989194240
Here’s the text from the article:
The conversation later turned to a pre-campaign dossier that was purportedly collected on Trump.
But Putin, who once worked as a KGB recruiter, alleged that he has no knowledge of such a dossier.
“Where would we get this information from? Why, did we have some special relationship with him?” Putin asked. “We didn’t have any relationship at all. There was a time when he used to come to Moscow. But you know, I never met with him. We have a lot of Americans who visit us.”
But mission accomplished, NBC News. The damage is already done:
Alrighty then… https://t.co/IaibxURbQn
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) June 4, 2017
https://twitter.com/gregpinelo/status/871512712924340226
https://twitter.com/LukePlunkett/status/871513342224900096
Great job, NBC News. We assume you’ll get pissed when Trump calls this out for the fake news that it is?
That headline is exactly the opposite of what he says in the story. Be more responsible. This is why Trump can keep claiming Fake News.
— Andrew Downie (@adowniebrazil) June 4, 2017
Update. NBC News has deleted the tweet above and issued this correction:
CORRECTION: Putin denies having compromising information about President Trump, calls it nonsense https://t.co/QU5x6XhXRY pic.twitter.com/BAtFzk2KYd
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 5, 2017
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