President Trump is using his influential Twitter platform to call for the resignation of “everybody” involved in the publishing of the New York Times piece that outlined a new allegation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The writers of the book have stated that the omitted details were indeed in the first draft of the NYT op-ed. By omitting those details (intentionally or unintentionally), the NYT dropped the ball and gave Trump a twittering treat.
I do love how Trump and Co. (and you too Scarborough) rush to judgment on the NYTimes ‘rushing to judgement’ and releasing ONE tweet that did not have all the words that were in the book. Oh yeah. Hey guys…READ THE FKING BOOK. ALL THE WORDS. Then gripe.
It’s hard to gauge the irrationality when the wild, contrary-to-one’s-lying-eyes claims started coming literally the first day. But he certainly does seems more hysterical lately, more like a person trying to conjure a better reality with words alone and finding to his desperation the spell doesn’t work any more because in fact it never did.
Don’t buy the hype of the breathless people, the edits were a nothingberder and changed nothing about the story. Of course an article being derived from a book is going to leave things out, you have to cut somewhere.
If they had said that an event happened, and the correction said it didn’t, that would be an issue. But what they said boiled down to the event had a bunch of witnesses, but the victim declined to be interviewed, and her friends said she didn’t remember it.
If that’s the standard, then Brock Turner should have gone free, because the girl he was raping was blackout drunk and didn’t remember anything either, despite witnesses to the crime that stopped him.