Headline Roundup • October 15th, 2018
NBC Issues Correction After Network Misquotes Trump on Robert E. Lee
Summary from the AllSides News Team
NBC News on Sunday issued a correction on Twitter after the network erroneously claimed that President Trump called Robert E. Lee "incredible" when he was actually referring to Ulysses S. Grant. In context, Trump said that Lee was “a true great fighter and a great general," but the comments were part of a larger discussion about Grant's exceptional skill in defeating him.
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It took a tweet from President Donald Trump and two days of ridicule online, but NBC News has finally corrected their claim that the president praised Confederate general Robert E. Lee as “incredible.”
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