[kahirsch]

Truepundit.com is a site with no named reporters but somehow still manages to get "scoops" from unnamed sources in the State Department, the Justice Department, the Pentagon, and the FBI. Yet these scoops are never confirmed by other sources and many of them are proved false, like these:

* November 4, 2016: BREAKING: Comey Mandates All FBI Agents Report to D.C. Offices; Prep for Raids, Possible Arrests in Clinton Probes

http://truepundit.com/breaking-comey-mandates-all-fbi-agents...

* December 27, 2016: Hillary Negotiating Secret Pardon With Obama’s White House Counsel Who Previously Worked for Clinton Family & White House

http://truepundit.com/hillary-negotiating-secret-pardon-with...

In other words, it publishes hoaxes.

[ColanR]

Two instances of getting it wrong doesn't negate the entire news organization. That would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There isn't any news organization that hasn't ever got an article wrong.

[kahirsch]

Real news organizations have actual reporters and have built up a reputation for getting things right. They have earned trust over years. They do get things wrong, but they issue corrections.

Truepundit.com is not a news organization. It popped up in 2016 and was dedicated to publishing "articles" attacking Democrats. It makes no pretense to being an objective news source. None of its "scoops" were ever confirmed by a real news source.

The article "Comey Mandates All FBI Agents Report to D.C. Offices; Prep for Raids, Possible Arrests in Clinton Probes" was published days before the 2016 presidential election.

It was not a mistake. It was a deliberate, politically-motivated hoax.

[Apocryphon]

That entire site looks like tabloid fodder.

[monocasa]

Her actual response:

https://youtu.be/ErH29hrpqvg?t=233

"I don't recall having said, but if I did it would have been a joke", while smirking.

That's politics code for "I totes said that, but I don't want to be caught in a lie if there's some record of it."