In new editor’s note, the Times continues to say it’s not to blame for its botched Hillary Clinton emails story. J-school intervention?
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Does Donald Trump realize that if you rape your wife it counts as rape? Even if she’s your wife?
Coming on the heels of Donald Trump’s now notorious slur calling Mexicans “rapists”, folks at The Daily Beast have dug up a rape allegation against Trump himself from a book called Lost Tycoon, The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump, published in 1993. According to the book, Trump assaulted his then-wife Ivana in a freakish rage over a botched surgery on his hair. The circumstances of the alleged assault, which is said to have occurred in 1989, are bizarre even by Trump standards. Trump had had a scalp reduction surgery (no, I did not know this existed) to remove a bald spot. Ivana had recommended the plastic surgeon. And apparently it hadn’t gone well and/or Trump was in a lot of pain. So he lashed out at Ivana, attacked her, held her down, began pulling hair out of her head to mimic his pain and forcibly penetrated her.
Now, Trump denies the incident occurred and for that matter denies he ever had the surgery. The account came in a deposition tied to Donald and Ivana’s notorious divorce, which was finalized in 1991. I have no way to know the truth of the allegation. But what jumped out at me in this story is something much more current. In defending his boss, Trump spokesman and Trump Organization special counsel Michael Cohen said that the whole thing doesn’t make sense since, regardless of what happened, you can’t rape your spouse.
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Republican Candidate for Governor in Missouri admits he was gay for five years because he as “abused as a child” but became straight again after a “religious experience”.
As you’ve seen, the Times has now issued yet another correction on that terribly botched story about Hillary Clinton and her emails. The scale of the screw up is frankly mind-boggling. But there’s a point in the follow up – particularly Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet’s response – which I think points to at least an element of the problem.
Baquet says you can’t lay the blame on the reporters or the editors since their sources simply were wrong.
That’s wrong – and frankly a bit jarring to hear.
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