Buttadeus: I'd assume the source here was a member of Congress himself, fwiw

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I hadn't seen this reported anywhere else and Lieu just tweeted that it's not true, just fyi,

pulling out a Polaroid of Yashar with "don't believe his lies" sharpied on the back

The Post had this

Yeah - I don't know what to make of it. It doesn't seem like the Post would fabricate it, or that someone would just make it up and tell them with the credibility to get it published?

I'm sure someone has a recording of the zoom call so it seems insane to lie about it's contents, either if you're the post or you're lieu

I mean. But what I feel we're getting away from is that the paper just went with it. Maybe I'm crazy, but I feel like they should verify what they print? And these are Politico reporters. Not exactly in the tank for Biden.

The journalists reporting on the Beyer piece stuck with it after his denial. Let’s see what happens with Lieu.

I'd like to believe the WaPo wouldn't straight up lie, but it's not like their changing of the guard at the Editor level and recent coverage of Biden gives me much confidence.

I believe it was a phone call rather than a video call, so a reporter may have simply misidentified a voice (though I agree that they should have verified his identity before posting)

Unless I read it wrong the reporter didn’t hear anything. Her source may have misidentified the voice but running with one source seems not awesome.

I'd assume the source here was a member of Congress himself, fwiw

Possibly Morrelle.

Well they wouldn’t possibly have any sort of agenda.

plot twist, somebody's planning to knife the 'softs' as soon as Biden's re-elected and wanted to make sure they were all on the record. (maybe. who even knows.)