R-FLA Rep. Anna Paulina Luna targeted the “nasty” headline on the Daily Beast on Monday.
Alex Isenstadt, an Axios reporter and author of “Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump's Retult to Power,” created the headline with a quote Trump said in a sneak preview published by Axios on Sunday.
Some of the quotes allegedly included a joke about his wife Melania being jealous, although she said she was pregnant with Luna in 2023 when she felt sick.
“If you need a bed to sleep, there's one here on the plane. If you're feeling bad and need to lie there, don't tell Melania. She doesn't like the other women in my bed,” Trump told Luna. Secretly on Axios Preview Trump was joking.
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R-Fla. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of the Daily Beast denounced the “nasty” headline and made an out-of-context exchange with President Trump. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, Getty Images)
But the daily beast I ran Heading “'Don't Tell Melania': Trump once offered his rising Magazine star to his bed,” teased readers, “she snips new light on the president's eyebrow-raising marriage to Melania Trump.”
The report admitted that Luna was “unwelling” in the first paragraph, but did not mention the joke nature of Trump's comments until the fourth time.
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The Daily Beasts are R-Fla, President Trump and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna. Headlines have been published that suggest an inappropriate relationship between (Screenshot/Daily Beast)
The Daily Beast shares a story about X, which further hints at an inappropriate relationship between Trump and Luna, writing, “The new revelation reportedly provided female lawmakers with his bed as long as Trump kept secrets from his wife.”
Luna was not kindly taking her to report the Daily Beast.
“I rarely respond to nasty headlines because I don't like to give trash credibility, but I'm told there's a book of names and attacks that suggests @potus, his marriage, our first lady, and frankly, something offensive about me.
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“I was very pregnant and had symptoms of pre-lammedia at the time, but I hadn't been diagnosed,” she explained. “As soon as @RealdonaldTrump got on the plane, he said he was a gentleman and a good guy and that if I felt good I could use the back room.
“This was the most compassionate thing of the time. I'm tired of the author not being able to recognize it,” Luna continued. “A few weeks later, I was induced by pre-eClamp disease. The author of this book didn't contact me for comments. This means that this book will probably be an S—hit.
The Daily Beast was later hit by a community note. “The woman in question was Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who publicly responded to the allegations. She claimed that nothing inappropriate happened, and was not asked for comment, and this situation is presented in the context.”
The Daily Beast was a hit with a community note calling for posts that said it was “out of context.” (Screenshot/x)
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Daily Beast did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
An Axios spokesperson told Fox News Digital: “In our report, Axios actually had an interaction that confirmed in her statement a correctly portrayed and contextualized comments that President Trump made in his interactions with Congressman Luna.”
In a statement to Fox News Digital, White House communications director Stephen Chen denounced Trump's books, which include desperate attempts to make money from President Trump's name, as journalism is a reporter.
