The Hill Editor-In-Chief Bob Cusack sent out a memo to the staff Monday, alerting them that old opinion columns written by former editorialist John Solomon and referenced frequently in the impeachment inquiry may be annotated, corrected or fact-checked.
The statement, via a CNN reporter:
The Hill Editor-In-Chief Bob Cusack just sent this email out to staff announcing that the outlet is reviewing, updating, annotating, and when appropriate correcting columns by John Solomon. pic.twitter.com/V5bKZZ6x3d
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) November 18, 2019
Solomon worked in concert with Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas and published pieces that touched off a smear campaign at the heart of the impeachment inquiry.
He published one article including claims from Yuriy Lutsenko, then Ukraine’s top prosecutor, that a U.S. diplomat presented him with a list of people not to prosecute. Lutsenko also said that he was reviving an investigation into Burisma Holdings to see if former Vice President Joe Biden interfered on behalf of his son, who sat on its board.
Solomon has acknowledged that Parnas connected him to Lutsenko.
The Ukraine prosecutor later walked back the entire story, saying that he asked the State Department for the names. U.S. officials there say that there was no such list and that the entire story is a fabrication. Lutsenko has also admitted that he saw no evidence of wrongdoing from the Bidens.
The Hill is trying to do some damage control after being dragged into multiple witness testimonies thus far.
1 / THE HILL is late to learn the shameful adage that “You f•kc just one goat, and you become known as a goat-f•kcer forever.”
2 / Solomon’s reputation preceded him before he joined THE HILL. It wanted notoriety and got it…the wrong kind.
3 / Nobody will read or pay attention to any annotations or corrections. The Administration has sufficiently operated Solomon/THE HILL as useful idiots. A bus is now coming for them to get under.
The Hill may be understanding ETTD at last
Please… The Hill just now discovered John Solomon had issues? They knew this guy did not have clean hands when they hired him. He was a hot mess back when he worked for the AP over a decade ago.
Still waiting on the NY Times re Judy Miller. Haven’t those managers who greenlit her work died off yet or are they still lurking?
When this administration is over, I wonder how many people will be Chernobyl-strength radioactive.