'If your candidacy gets six figures worth of support from someone, you are 'backed' by that person. In no other context does one assume 'backed' means 'hangs out with,'' TPCarney writes.
Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ron DeSantis have all claimed Alvin Bragg is"Soros-backed" or aligned since the news of the indictment dropped.
— David Weigel March 31, 2023 Collins considers himself not only a straight-news reporter but also something of a fact-checker. In the Trump era, the fact-checkers have styled themselves as “disinformation reporters.” Collins is notorious for basically adopting whatever the current Democratic spin is, presenting it as a fact check, and branding opinions or framing he dislikes as “misinformation.”
Why the hell would a reporter want to declare it off-limits to mention the massive donations from an ideologically extreme businessman? Isn’t it the job of the media to hold the powerful to account and so to connect the dots between big money and big power?
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