Former President Donald Trump accused the Pulitzer Prize Board of “running cover for the biggest reporting failure in modern history” after the panel stood by its 2018 award for stories stoking the Russia collusion narrative.
The Pulitzer board said Monday that two independent investigations found “no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.”
Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly called for the award to be rescinded, blasted the board and said he would continue to do “everything possible to right the wrong caused by the 2018 Pulitzer Prize.