PBS's Judy Woodruff apologizes for falsely telling live audience Trump tried to talk Israel out of cease-fire deal | 21 Aug 2024 | A PBS senior correspondent apologized Wednesday after falsely telling her audience that former President Donald Trump tried to talk Israel out of a cease-fire amid its ongoing war in Gaza. Judy Woodruff [long-term Project Mockingbird troll] passed off blame for the blunder by "clarifying" that she based the flimsy scoop on outside reporting she had read before broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) 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," Woodruff told a PBS roundtable.