Then they issued a written apology to Dominion.
These were the icing on top of the rancid AT cake of sloppy editing, poor fact-checking, and generally embarrassing writing that is (IMHO) second only to GP, with Washington Examiner a distant third.
Yes, not allowing comments, etc. is a red flag.
AT is American Thinker, right? They want us only to think about what their articles say, purport, etc. and not about what we and others think, they don’t want us picking the articles and word(s) usage apart, etc.