Fake news, the former president called it.

“NBC News incorrectly reported (as usual) that I was limiting the FBI investigation of Judge Kavanaugh, and witnesses, only to certain people,” Donald Trump posted on Twitter, now called X, in Sept. 2018. “Actually, I want them to interview whoever they deem appropriate, at their discretion. Please correct your reporting!”

NBC News would in fact go on to report a few days later that Trump’s online directive had no impact in real life. In a report immediately following Trump’s corrective, the outlet noted that the FBI had received “no new instructions from the White House” and that the former president's claims aside, there were indeed limits imposed on the bureau’s investigation by the Trump White House, which, for example, prohibited an interview with a woman accusing the future Supreme Court justice of sexual misconduct, as well as Kavanaugh’s high school classmates.

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