Trump Calls for Everybody Involved in the NY Times “Smear Story” to Resign

Monday afternoon President Trump called for the “resignation of everyone at the NY Times involved in the Kavanaugh SMEAR story.”

Trump added “and while you’re at it, the Russian Witch Hunt Hoax, which is just as phony!”

Ripping the iconic publication, Trump wrote “They’ve taken the Old Grey Lady and broken her down, destroyed her virtue and ruined her reputation…

…She can never recover, and will never return to Greatness, under current Management. The Times is DEAD, long live The New York Times!”

I call for the Resignation of everybody at The New York Times involved in the Kavanaugh SMEAR story, and while you’re at it, the Russian Witch Hunt Hoax, which is just as phony! They’ve taken the Old Grey Lady and broken her down, destroyed her virtue and ruined her reputation…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2019

…She can never recover, and will never return to Greatness, under current Management. The Times is DEAD, long live The New York Times!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 16, 2019

Trump supporters Carmine Sabia and Nick Adams agreed.

Carmine added “They are not a newspaper. The New York Times is the propaganda arm of the DNC.”

They are not a newspaper. The New York Times is the propaganda arm of the DNC.

— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) September 16, 2019

You are 100% right!

— Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA) September 16, 2019

Fox News reported that the New York Times suddenly made a major revision to a supposed bombshell piece late Sunday concerning a resurfaced allegation of sexual assault by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh — hours after virtually all 2020 Democratic presidential candidates had cited the original article as a reason to impeach Kavanaugh.

The update included the significant detail that several friends of the alleged victim said she did not recall the supposed sexual assault in question at all. The Times also stated for the first time that the alleged victim refused to be interviewed, and has made no comment about the episode.

The only first-hand statement concerning the supposed attack in the original piece, which was published on Saturday, came from a Clinton-connected lawyer who claimed to have witnessed it.

The Times’ revision says: “Editors’ Note: An earlier version of this article, which was adapted from a forthcoming book, did not include one element of the book’s account regarding an assertion by a Yale classmate that friends of Brett Kavanaugh pushed his penis into the hand of a female student at a drunken dorm party. The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article.”

The update came only after The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway, who reviewed an advance copy of the book, first flagged the article’s omission on Twitter — prompting other commentators to press the issue.

Trump spent much of the weekend fiercely defending his second Supreme Court Justice pick.