On Monday, The New York Times published a report alleging that Brett Kavanaugh made a reference in one of his high school yearbooks that was “hurtful” to a girl who was part of an inside joke among Kavanaugh and his football buddies. Kavanaugh and four of the guys who’d made the “mysterious” reference (“Renate Alumnius”) to a girl who a few of them said they’d gone on an “innocent date” with at some point responded by saying it was a harmless joke.
Now, the Times is getting blowback not only for the pettiness of the story but for hiding multiple key facts. The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway reports that the Times “hid multiple problems with its claims, including that it was sourced to a rabidly anti-Trump politician in Maryland and his associate.” Hemingway reports:
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