The Telegraph: Liberal Scumbag of the Week

Claim To Fame: A national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London

Why They're the Liberal Scumbag of the Week: for running an article in its magazine a week ago that it said included “a number of false statements” and shouldn’t have been published. The longtime British daily admitted in an explanation titled “Melania Trump -- An Apology,” that the first lady’s father was not “a fearsome presence and did not control the family.” It also said she didn’t leave her studies in design and architecture at university due to an exam, but because she wanted to pursue a career as a model. It also said it inaccurately stated she was “struggling” as a model when she met Donald Trump, now the president.

The UK newspaper is now promising to pay the 1st Lady 'substantial damages' for their fake news story.

BusinessInsider.com:

The story, which was written by US journalist Nina Burleigh, has since been removed from the Telegraph's website. 

Among the issues with the article pointed out in the paper's statement is that of Trump's father "was not a fearsome presence and did not control the family." 

The first lady's education was also apparently misstated, as the apology reads that Trump "did not leave her design and architecture course at university relating to the completion of an exam, as alleged in the article, but rather because she wanted to pursue a successful career as a professional model." 

Of her career as a model before she met her husband, the apology clarified that "Trump was not struggling...and she did not advance in her career due to the assistance of Mr. Trump." 

The apology continued: "We accept that Mrs Trump was a successful professional model in her own right before she met her husband and obtained her own modeling work without his assistance." 

Other factual errors described in the apology include that the first lady met her husband in 1998, not 1996, in addition to other small points about her life before the White House.