Rep. Ruben Gallego Ruben GallegoMark Kelly kicks off Senate bid: ‘A mission to lift up hardworking Arizonans’ Dem lawmaker: 'Trump's presidency is the real national emergency' Poll shows McSally, Kelly tied in Arizona Senate race MORE (D-Ariz.) shot back at President Trump Donald John TrumpREAD: Cohen testimony alleges Trump knew Stone talked with WikiLeaks about DNC emails Trump urges North Korea to denuclearize ahead of summit Venezuela's Maduro says he fears 'bad' people around Trump MORE’s calls for a Washington Post reporter to be fired over a misleading tweet about Trump’s rally, saying Trump didn’t fire his chief of staff for making an inaccurate statement about a Democratic lawmaker.

“Your Chief of Staff lied about @RepWilson when are you going to fire him?” Gallego tweeted Saturday.

Your Chief of Staff lied about @RepWilson when are you going to fire him? https://t.co/S309aquJPc — Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) December 9, 2017

The lawmaker was referring to John Kelly John Francis KellyMORE claiming that Rep. Frederica Wilson Frederica Patricia WilsonJuan Williams: Racial shifts spark fury in Trump and his base Dem behind impeachment push to boycott State of the Union Democrats seek to take on Trump at State of the Union MORE (D-Fla.) had taken credit for securing funding for an FBI building, despite a video showing that Wilson hadn’t taken credit for the funds.

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Kelly made the comments against Wilson after she shared details of a phone call between Trump and the widow of a fallen soldier.

Gallego’s tweet was in response to Trump’s attacks on Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel over a tweet Weigel posted that showed empty seats at a Trump rally Friday night.

However, the photo was from before the rally began and there was a large crowd at the event.

Trump first demanded that Weigel apologize for the tweet.

The reporter apologized almost immediately after Trump’s demand and noted that he had deleted the tweet after another reporter had pointed out that it was inaccurate.

Trump then called for Weigel to be fired after the apology.

.@DaveWeigel @WashingtonPost put out a phony photo of an empty arena hours before I arrived @ the venue, w/ thousands of people outside, on their way in. Real photos now shown as I spoke. Packed house, many people unable to get in. Demand apology & retraction from FAKE NEWS WaPo! pic.twitter.com/XAblFGh1ob — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2017

Sure thing: I apologize. I deleted the photo after @dmartosko told me I'd gotten it wrong. Was confused by the image of you walking in the bottom right corner. https://t.co/fQY7GMNSaD — Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) December 9, 2017