Washington Post: Our story wasn't fake, it led to Trump ousting Flynn

The Washington Post pushed back against President Donald Trump’s claims that a report about former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s conversations with a Russian ambassador was “fake news.” President Trump obliquely referred to the Post's story on Flynn that cited nine former or current officials, insisting the sources were made up. “Everything we published regarding Gen. Flynn was true, as confirmed by subsequent events and on-the-record statements from administration officials themselves,” Post executive editor Marty Baron said in a statement. "The story led directly to the general’s dismissal as national security adviser. Calling press reports fake doesn’t make them so.”