Opinion: Remember when the New York Times cleared Trump of collusion before the election?
Russian President Vladimir Putin. By Erik Wemple Erik Wemple Media critic with a focus on the ups and downs and downs of the cable-news industry. Email Bio Follow Media critic March 26 at 7:35 PM On his Fox News program Monday night, Sean Hannity teed off on the conclusion of the Robert S. Mueller III’s special counsel investigation, which according to Attorney General William P.
That summary emerged Sunday, roughly 2½ years after the Times asserted “no clear link.” In that tumultuous interim, the story by Lichtblau and Myers endured repeated and determined exhumations, primarily at the hands of liberals disgusted by the clean bill of health that it accorded Trump just before his historic victory over Clinton.
In her book “Merchants of Truth,” former Times executive editor Jill Abramson narrates the run-up to the Lichtblau-Myers story, noting that the newspaper had been investigating the same Alfa Bank-Trump Organization story that Foer published in Slate. After Lichtblau sought comment from Alfa’s reps in Washington, the Trump Organization disabled the server that was allegedly communicating with Alfa Bank — stiffening the journalist’s resolve to publish the story.
Even the Times itself criticized the story. In a May 2018 story on the federal probe of Trump-Russia, a team of three Times reporters delivered this verdict: When the Times"tried to assess the state of the investigation in October 2016, law enforcement officials cautioned against drawing any conclusions, resulting in a story that significantly played down the case.”
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