Doesn’t look good.
Question: Are politicians obliged to treat every accusation seriously?
I mean, at what point to they just say, “that is silly, get lost.”
Don’t answer the question and it appears to some that he is hiding something, or answer and you are legitimizing the accusation, thereby encouraging more outlandish and silly accusations that political enemies demand an answer to.
Answer with a curt “no” and move on, but reporters will not move on, they will come back over and over with “Well, the NE now says such-and-such. . .” It never ends.
There is no correct way.
NE is a tabloid, full of swill that old ladies in check-out lines read for “news.”
Has NE got something right before?
Yes, but it is an exceptionally, exceptionally rare occurrence. When it comes to the NE, the saying that even a blind squirrel occasionally finds an acorn is so very true.
Standard for “proof” with NR should be extraordinary high because of their known nature and past spectacular failures and made-up nonsense.