Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: TFG in the WSJ, Condi Rice, and Bolsonaro's day may be coming
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Philip Bump of The Washington Post responds to a letter that TFG wrote and was published in The Wall Street Journal ($$$) with yet more baseless claims about the 2020 election in Pennsylvania. The Wall Street Journal should not have published iAbbreviated Pundit Roundup: TFG in the WSJ, Condi Rice, and Bolsonaro's day may be coming
Philip Bump of The Washington Post responds to a letter that TFG wrote and was published in The Wall Street Journal ($$$) with yet more baseless claims about the 2020 election in Pennsylvania. The Wall Street Journal should not have published it without assessing the claims and demonstrating where they were wrong, misleading or unimportant. The Journal would have been better served had it explained why it chose to run the letter without contextualizing it, since that might have at least offered some clarity on the otherwise inexplicable decision, but it didn’t. Even if those who decided to publish the letter lacked the resources to fact-check each of the claims, they might have pushed back on obviously false claims, as when Trump falsely claims that Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg spent millions of dollars to “interfere in the Pennsylvania election.” They might also have noted that the organization that Trump repeatedly cites as an authority for his claims, the “highly respected” group Audit the Vote PA, has no actual experience in evaluating elections. Read more