Politico used the Dan Rather/See-BS method of “reporting”. Throw it out there (ring the bell) then challenge others to prove it isn’t true, and when and if they do the bell has already been rung.
Yeah, the “so when did you stop beating your wife” method.
Scum.
Expect more of this crap in October and November of 2016.
In 2000, there was a Sunday-before-the-election release of GWBush's decades old DWI arrest. It clearly cost him some votes, and with it his ability to claim "popular vote" since Al Gore Junior only managed a 0.51% margin in the certified popular vote.
In 2004, AP went public with some trumped up claims that Bush was AWOL while in the National Guard. Dan Ratherbiased wanted to beat them to the punch (he had the same trumped up documents) and went on air with them at CBS. For 3 days CBS (and AP?) didn't even ACKNOWLEDGE there was a controversy about their authenticity. If these news outlets had held back on them another couple of weeks, it could've cost Bush the election in 2004.
In 2006, the media and the DNC colluded on a "culture of corruption" talking point. It came out in the subsequent investigation that the Democrats KNEW about the Senator and his texting with aides MORE and EARLIER than the GOP leadership but they decided to sit on it to use as an October surprise (to usher in the Democrat leadership of Pelosi and Reid). Other "examples" of the culture of corruption were a toe tapping homosexual and a partisan purge of Tom DeLay (since cleared).