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Elizabeth Urban

White House Demands Reporters' Pulitzer Prizes Be Stripped for 'Perpetuating a Hoax'

The White House demanded that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who covered Russian interference in the 2016 election have their awards stripped. (Credit: (Photo by MEHMET ESER/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

The White House demanded that journalists who won Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of Russian interference in the 2016 election have their awards stripped for "perpetuating a hoax."

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt bashed reporters during a White House press briefing Wednesday following a release from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence claiming to have uncovered "overwhelming evidence" that the reports were "manufactured" by former President Barack Obama.

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