CORRECTION: An earlier tweet misidentified the general President Trump described as "incredible" at a rally in Ohio. It was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, not Gen. Robert E. Lee. An attached video clip lacked the full context for Trump's remark. Here is the full clip. pic.twitter.com/NZHj3Q2dHL
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 14, 2018
Too little, too late. Update to this story.
Via Townhall:
As we reported yesterday, on Friday night NBC News tweeted an out-of-context, selectively edited clip of President Donald J. Trump at a rally in Cincinnati, OH making what appeared to be complimentary remarks towards Confederate General Robert E. Lee. While the president did call Lee a “great” general, he was only doing so to boast of Ohio-native, General of the Union Army, and President Ulysses S. Grant’s own military might in defeating Lee and the South. Regardless, despite the fact that literally thousands of Twitter users and dozens of articles pointed out their journalistic irresponsibility, NBC News waited until today to admit their “mistake.”