This reported story was not even based on an individual’s personal claim of something happening to them. The entire story is based on what a few individual (with their own agenda) claimed they heard about.
If you never heard of it there is something called the MANDELA EFFECT
https://mandelaeffect.com/about/
Where people believe something that did not happen.
There are many cases where people will share the same memory of an historical event, but the memories are all wrong.
So if this can happen with historical events, how can anyone trust any memory from 38 years ago.
You can go to any family function and as people begin telling stories (about their childhood) another member often would correct them on some detail. Who’s version is correct, they were both there but they have slightly different versions.
But here, two reporters wrote an entire book with the single aim was to ruin the reputation of a sitting Justice on the Supreme Court based not on any direct participants statement (who by the way already claimed to have no memory of the event in question) but on heresy from some political hack with an agenda.
There was no proof, no facts, no claim by any victim yet the New York Times printed it (excluding the paragraph where the individual claimed it did not happen to her).
This is not reporting, this is slander pure and simple to gain political points.
And all those that jumped on the bandwagon seconds after the article appeared (almost as if they all received the memo) should be ashamed of themselves
“This is not reporting, this is slander pure and simple..”
Slander is the deliberately spoken falsehood. Libel is the deliberately written falsehood.
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