{"id":4529,"date":"2019-05-28T03:07:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T08:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=4529"},"modified":"2019-05-28T06:53:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T11:53:32","slug":"trump-cites-ian-bremmer-tweet-as-reason-why-libel-laws-should-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/trump-cites-ian-bremmer-tweet-as-reason-why-libel-laws-should-change-20190528","title":{"rendered":"Trump Cites Ian Bremmer Tweet as Reason Why Libel Laws Should Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday morning, Ian Bremmer, an author, and professor, with almost half a million Twitter followers, tweeted a fake quote which he attributed to the U.S President. He later deleted the tweet after receiving backlash from other journalists and political analysts and President Trump tweeting about the dangers of fake news. Trump has since called for libel laws to be modified so that they hold journalist more accountable.<\/p>\n<h2>Fake News<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4530\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4530\" style=\"width: 383px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4530 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Fake-news-383x360.png\" alt=\"Ian Bremmer\" width=\"383\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4530\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Bremmer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yesterday, Bremmer tweeted a quote attributed to the president, &#8220;Kim Jong Un is smarter and would make a better President than Sleepy Joe Biden.&#8221; His tweet quickly gained traction and was, at first, believed by many, but soon became the product of severe backlash. After the quote was questioned by his followers, Bremmer simply replied that it was &#8220;plausible,&#8221; but did not confirm that he had made up the tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">When you put out a fake Trump quote without any indication you were making it up, and then blame the readers for not realizing you were making the quote up.<\/p>\n<p>Nice work, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ianbremmer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ianbremmer<\/a>. You&#8217;re only helping the cause of people like Trump who want to label everything &#8220;fake news.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BYYKmNmDNU\">pic.twitter.com\/BYYKmNmDNU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NumbersMuncher\/status\/1132726075421863938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He later followed up on his original tweet, apologizing for any confusion and saying it had just been &#8220;in jest.&#8221; He also deleted his initial tweets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My tweet yesterday about Trump preferring Kim Jong Un to Biden as President was meant in jest. The President correctly quoted me as saying it was a \u201ccompletely ludicrous\u201d statement. I should have been clearer. My apologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ianbremmer\/status\/1132995369124671488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Ludicrous Quote<\/h2>\n<p>President Trump, who was in Japan at that time, joined the conversation on Monday morning, saying that this is \u201cwhat\u2019s going on in the age of Fake News.&#8221; He continued by saying that something should be done to stop journalists from publishing fake news, hinting that the libel laws should be changed to hold more people accountable.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ianbremmer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ianbremmer<\/a> now admits that he MADE UP \u201ca completely ludicrous quote,\u201d attributing it to me. This is what\u2019s going on in the age of Fake News. People think they can say anything and get away with it. Really, the libel laws should be changed to hold Fake News Media accountable!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1132933851133534210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Trump has called for a change in libel laws but in the past, Brian Hauss, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, has said that the authority to change those laws falls under the state&#8217;s jurisdiction and not the federal. <a class=\"simple-footnote\" title=\"Ishwar, Shivani. &#8220;President Trump calls for a change in libel laws to &#8216;hold Fake News Media accountable&#8217;.&#8221; The Week, 27 May. 2019, theweek.com\/speedreads\/843751\/president-trump-calls-change-libel-laws-hold-fake-news-media-accountable.\" id=\"return-note-4529-1\" href=\"#note-4529-1\"><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/><div class=\"simple-footnotes\"><h4 class=\"notes\">Notes:<\/h4><ol><li id=\"note-4529-1\" class=\"simple-footnote\"><a class=\"tjfootnotes\" href=\"#return-note-4529-1\">&#94;<\/a>Ishwar, Shivani. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/speedreads\/843751\/president-trump-calls-change-libel-laws-hold-fake-news-media-accountable\">President Trump calls for a change in libel laws to &#8216;hold Fake News Media accountable&#8217;<\/a>.&#8221; The Week, 27 May. 2019, theweek.com\/speedreads\/843751\/president-trump-calls-change-libel-laws-hold-fake-news-media-accountable. <a href=\"#return-note-4529-1\">&#40;go back &nbsp;&#8617;&#41;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Bremmer, an author, and professor, with almost half a million Twitter followers, tweeted a fake quote which he attributed to the U.S President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[210,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4531,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions\/4531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}