Tuesday, July 11, 2017

WILL NEW YORK TIMES EVER GET A STORY RIGHT?

The illustrious NEW YORK TIMES is at it again, rushing into print with a story about how Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian agent while trying to get dirt on the Clinton Campaign and that this was the smoking gun that could bring the Trump presidency to an end.  According to the story, the meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer was set up at the request of Emin Agalarov, a Russian pop star whose Kremlin-connected family has done business with President Trump in the past. 

As it turns out, the premise for the meeting was that the Russian lawyer had some dirt that could be useful.  When she actually got into the meeting with Trump Jr., it became apparent that she was full of hot air and that her real agenda was regarding Russian adoptions.  No action on her request was taken and there have been no subsequent meetings or correspondence.  The most Trump Jr. was guilty of is having been duped under false pretenses into a meeting with a Russian lawyer.  

Had the TIMES done what any responsible journalistic newspaper should have done and investigated all of the facts of the story, it would have discovered that the story was certainly nothing to write home about.  

It seems as if the TIMES is managing to come up with at least one phony anti-Trump headline on a daily basis, and those who advertise in the "newspaper" or subscribe to it are to blame for enabling the failing rag to survive for one more sordid day.  



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