NBC News Editors Clap Back at WH Spox Who Made a False Claim About Their Blockbuster Report On Biden and Family Discussing Campaign’s ‘Future’

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NBC News editors promptly corrected a White House spokesman who made a false claim about their blockbuster report that President Joe Biden is huddling with his family at Camp David to discuss “the future” of his reelection campaign.

In a post to X/Twitter late Saturday, White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates claimed that in its report, NBC failed to note that the trip to Camp David has been public knowledge for days.

“We publicly announced the Camp David trip on 6/23, which @NBCNews apparently missed,” Bates wrote.

But that claim is false. In the second paragraph of the NBC report, it was indeed noted that the Camp David trip has been on the books.

“Biden’s trip was planned before Thursday’s debate,” the report stated. “He and first lady Jill Biden are scheduled to join their children and grandchildren there late Saturday.”

NBC News’ Politics Managing Editor Amanda Terkel completely spiked the false claim.

“Our second paragraph acknowledges that the trip to Camp David was planned before the debate,” Terkel wrote on X/Twitter.

NBC News Digital’s senior executive editor Tom Namako added simply, “Paragraph 2.”

Bates also claimed NBC News did not seek comment from the White House prior to its report.

“They never came to us for comment about it at all,” Bates said.

NBC’s Terkel stated that the network reached out to the Biden campaign prior to running the piece.

“We also reached out to the campaign before publication — which is also in the piece — and the campaign declined to give us a comment,” she wrote.