Reporter Says Bloomberg Interviewers Were Not Source

President Trump accused Bloomberg of leaking “off the record” comments on trade negotiations with Canada, but the Toronto Star’s Daniel Dale, who broke the story, tweets that the interviewers were not his source.

Said Dale: “I’d said I wasn’t going to say anything about my source for the quotes Trump made off the record to Bloomberg. However, I don’t want to be party to the president’s smearing of excellent, ethical journalists. So I can say this: none of the Bloomberg interviewers was my source.”

He added: “Trump is calling Jennifer Jacobs, Margaret Talev and their editor liars. They aren’t, and they didn’t violate their ‘off the record’ promise to him. I don’t want to be a party to his attempt to make fellow reporters look deceitful.”