Pulitzer Prize board rejects Trump's demands to yank awards from The New York Times and The Washington Post for coverage of Trumpworld's ties to Russia and the Mueller probe

• The Pulitzer Prize board turned down Trump's attempt to have the award taken away.

• The Washington Post and New York Times don't deserve the award according to Trump.

• Two reviews found that the stories were not discredited.

According to the Pulitzer board, it commissioned two separate reviews into The Post and The Times' reporting and that each of the inquiries found that the stories still stand.

The board said that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by the facts that emerged after the awards.

The prize should have been taken away from Trump. He threatened to file a lawsuit if the board didn't take back the awards. The two national publications were demonized by the former president, who claimed that they were the enemy of the people.

In May, Trump mentioned the investigation into the actions of Michael Sussmann, a one-time lawyer for Hillary Clinton. He hasn't specified how that applies to reporting about James Comey's actions.

In a May letter, Trump called for the revocation of the prize because of the fake news. We'll see you in court if you don't do it.

The episode at the center of the trial is not mentioned in any of the winning stories. According to prosecutors, Sussmann lied to the FBI when he said he was working for the Trump Organization. The man was acquitted.

The Times reported on how then-FBI Director James Comey tried to steer the bureau through the sensitive task of a public investigation into Clinton and then an unknown investigation into Trump and his advisors' ties to Russia. The main focus of the trial was the FBI looking at the data.

Donald Trump Jr.'s attendance at an infamous Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer, Trump's firing of FBI Director, and how the Obama administration dealt with a president-elect who may have been compromised were some of the stories that remained.

The public call for special counsel Robert Muller's investigation into Russian election interference and ties between the Trump campaign and Russia was spurred by the Times' publication of the notes of former FBI Director James Comey.

Representatives for The Post and Times didn't reply to the request. Insider's message was not responded to by a spokesman for Trump.

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