ProPublica has won three Pulitzer Prizes in the last ten years. The New York-based investigative journalism organization provides content, for free, to news outlets around the country on a wide range of topics produced by more than 30 professional investigative reporters.
Yesterday, ProPublica reported that not only has President Trump not fully divested himself from his businesses — something they’ve reported in the past — but can pull money from his businesses without ever disclosing it thanks to a change in Trump’s blind trust made on February 10.
White House spokesman replied by calling ProPublica a “left-wing blog.”
“Just because a left-wing blog makes the point of something changing, doesn’t mean it actually happened,” Spicer told reporters.
ProPublica took to Twitter, and it did not go well for Spicer.
1/ So @seanspicer just called us a “left-wing blog.” Since we’re actually in the biz of facts, we figured we’d respond w/ a few…
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 2/ @seanspicer was trying to knock our story that Trump’s trust doc was revised to say he can take $ frm biz anytime https://t.co/xcohyMmoRc
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 3/ @seanspicer said he’s “not aware of any change in the trust.” And he then said this: https://t.co/44Rj2EZxDc pic.twitter.com/lrQpWkZjKh
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 4/ The Trump trust doc was revised & signed Feb. 10. Here you go, @seanspicer: https://t.co/f1SgoNeIJ1 pic.twitter.com/9odXRrFEjV
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 5/ We do no-surprises journalism. We told the Trump Org & WH what we knew and gave them time to explain.They didn’t. https://t.co/pYfcdEp64W pic.twitter.com/paZfZWr4W1
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 6/ What we do is hold people in power accountable, no matter who they are, or what names they call us. We do it with facts. Like…
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 7/ The fact that Tom Price bought drug company stock same day he pushed policy that could help the company. https://t.co/nica3s6oi1
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 8/ The fact that Trump has quietly installed officials across the government to be his eyes and ears: https://t.co/UhSNXaGwBH
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 9/ The fact that Jared Kushner isn’t actually separating himself from his business empire: https://t.co/ZNFNVOkfdL
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 10/ Or the fact that 5 top Trump officials have made false statements to Congress:https://t.co/xQGhQwEWaF
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 11/ And yes, our job always has been and will be holding *all* those in power accountable.
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 12/ So, we wrote about fact that Obama caved to big banks and didn’t deliver on his promises to help homeowners: https://t.co/DnhEUzJIoP
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 13/ We wrote about former Obama officials lobbying to push through a merger that could make flying more miserable: https://t.co/coXWQ7PInF
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 14/ And wrote about how Obama was falling short on his own promises to grant pardons. https://t.co/eYO0xJLcT5
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
.@seanspicer 15/ So any other facts you’d like to know, @seanspicer?
— ProPublica (@ProPublica) April 3, 2017
Wow. Spicer’s gonna need some cool water for that burn.