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Trump worked to kill a story about his friendship with Epstein. Now we know why (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 days ago by griff@lemmings.world to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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It’s not just that he really, really wants this scandal to go away since it has been turning swaths of his normally cult-like base against him.

No, there’s another element – and a brutal one for the president. It’s where the story was published: in the Wall Street Journal, whose conservative opinion side has often backed him and whose news side has a reputation for ensuring that explosive stories are bulletproof: accurate in their facts and fully prepared to stand up under legal scrutiny.

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[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 11 points 5 days ago

We've known why for quite some time. The shift here is in the number of people willing to consider reality as opposed to his lies and bullshit. Without that, well, the emperor's new clothes seem a bit transparent.