Trump Calls For Resignation Of ‘Everybody’ At NYT Involved In Kavanaugh Story

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.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1248900
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“influential Twitter platform”

In what sense are you using the word, “influential”? And WTF does this this part even mean:?

“The Times is DEAD, long live The New York Times!”

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It means he’s been grinding the Adderall pills into powder and mixing it in the tequila. Again.

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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. :slightly_frowning_face:

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taken the Old Grey Lady and broken her down, destroyed her virtue and ruined her reputation…

This old grey lady?

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You first!

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It’s phrase Trump heard one time and thought…well I have no idea why he thought to insert that.

I would love it if we got the Kav, and 5 other men that look similar to the Kav, and presented them to Trump to pick out his good guy.

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Kavanaugh should resign.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Is he awaiting instructions from Saudi Arabia or Kavanaugh himself on how should the DOJ proceed?

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Donald my boy, running the NYT isn’t up to you … you have other responsibilities to ignore.

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Only a rapist himself would revel in the revision, and ignore the fact that dozens of people saw it.

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bingo

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Histrionics is a shitty means of governing…

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With Trump, it goes in his ears and comes out his mouth since there is not a brain to process the spoken word.

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Damn right. What a psycho.

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Right. Murder victims are also notoriously reluctant to testify.

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The motherfucker sounds scared.

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