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

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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.

In the Monday evening tweet, Trump lamented the apparent demise of the “Old Grey Lady,” arguing an unknown “they” had “destroyed her virtue and ruined her reputation.”

When the Times published an editor’s note on the piece Sunday evening, Trump reveled in the revision. When the story was first published, Trump called on Kavanaugh to sue over the new allegation.

In an excerpt of two Times reporters’ new book published as an opinion piece in the Times over the weekend, a new sexual assault allegation against Kavanaugh was outlined, in which he allegedly thrust his penis into the hand of a female classmate at a party at Yale. The actual book includes a disclaimer: that the alleged victim declined to be interviewed and told friends that she didn’t remember the incident. That disclaimer was initially left out of the Times piece and was later added in an editor’s note.

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  1. “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!”

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

  3. 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:

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

    This old grey lady?

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  5. Avatar for 1gg 1gg says:

    You first!

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