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Journalists Fact-Check Trump After He Disputes Woman's Kissing Claims

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By Jeffrey Rodack | Tuesday, 20 February 2018 12:53 PM EST

Journalists took to Twitter to fact-check President Donald Trump’s blasts against Rachel Crooks, who claims he kissed her inside Trump Tower 12 years ago. Mediaite is reporting.

Trump, in a pair of tweets, disputed Crooks’ claims that he kissed her while waiting for an elevator. He also blasted The Washington Post for printing her story.

A woman I don’t know and, to the best of my knowledge, never met, is on the FRONT PAGE of the Fake News Washington Post saying I kissed her (for two minutes yet) in the lobby of Trump Tower 12 years ago. Never happened! Who would do this in a public space with live security......
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2018

....cameras running. Another False Accusation. Why doesn’t @washingtonpost report the story of the women taking money to make up stories about me? One had her home mortgage paid off. Only @FoxNews so reported...doesn’t fit the Mainstream Media narrative.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2018

But journalists say Trump’s Twitter postings contain false information, Mediaite reported.

Ben Jacobs, the political reporter for The Guardian noted:

Also, not that this matters, but Rachel Crooks alleges this happened outside her office and not in the lobby of Trump Tower https://t.co/i2LuWa8gUu
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) February 20, 2018

And Maggie Haberman of The New York Times replied:

It matters a lot - he’s arguing it happened somewhere else, more public, to suggest it therefore didn’t happen at all https://t.co/F47zzrxl0T
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 20, 2018

Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star tweeted:

Trump has regularly and falsely claimed to have never met accusers we know he has met. (Incidentally, he has done the same about Putin.) pic.twitter.com/ziaVQQM2vv
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 20, 2018

Tamara Keith of National Public Radio also took to Twitter stating, "Fact check: The allegation described in the article is that the kiss occurred outside of an office in Trump Tower, not in the lobby."

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