A senior PBS correspondent has apologized for claiming Donald Trump tried to talk Israel out of a ceasefire deal to stop it helping Kamala Harris’ campaign.

Judy Woodruff said in Chicago on Monday: ‘The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the Prime Minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign.’

‘Who knows whether that will come about or not, but I have to think that the Harris campaign would like for President Biden to do what presidents do, which is work on that one’.

She then admitted she made a ‘mistake’ and clarified that she was basing the story on other reporting.

‘I want to clarify my remarks on the PBS News special on Monday night about the ongoing cease fire talks in the Middle East,’ she posted on X.

‘As I said, this was not based on my original reporting; I was referring to reports I had read, in Axios and Reuters, about former President Trump having spoken to the Israeli Prime Minister.

In the live TV moment, I repeated the story because I hadn’t seen later reporting that both sides denied it. This was a mistake and I apologize for it.’

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/