WTF USA Today?
I mean, I guess they just wanted the ad revenue from having both the op-ed and the rebuttal. Or the Op-Ed process is looser than I thought. Still doesn’t sit right to have a sitting president write an op-ed to slam his political opponents.
The fact check was posted almost a day and a half after the op-ed. Perfectly reasonable that FactCheck.org read the piece and asked to rebut (it was plenty of time for 3 people to write the rebuttal) rather than it being a coordinated release. Either way, I don’t see why it’s a problem. Presidential op-eds are nothing new.
If you have to post a fact check rebuttal that is way longer than the “opinion” piece, maybe don’t run the opinion piece in the first place.
Rebuttals are usually longer than the original piece because they often address one-off statements made in the original piece with lengthy responses.
True, I am sure there are plenty of examples in this thread where I have written a rebuttal that is longer than the original post.
I don’t see the objection to USAT including both. Running the president’s claims is simply reporting what an important, powerful figure is doing.
No, that’s giving him another platform he doesn’t need to spew his lies. That’s different that reporting on what he’s doing.
After reading Trump’s op-ed and the rebuttal, I don’t see how his lies are worse than any other politician’s. Seems to me that people base the lies they’ll accept on their opinion of the liar. If they like the liar and agree with their overall position, they’ll gladly accept the lie.
Perhaps, but Trump does lie, a lot.
After reading Trump’s claims, I’m even more amazed anyone would vote for him. It should be totally laughable to anyone with even a modicum of intelligence.
Have you read this thread?
Is there anyone here who voted for or plans to vote for Trump? I wouldn’t blame them for keeping quiet given the vitriol they’d receive, but I don’t think one person has said they did or would.
Most of those that would or did support Trump are long gone.