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I find that the writer, Virginia Heffernan, graduated from college in 1991. Her “friend” “Anna” (who may or may not exist) has to be at least 10 yrs older to have been teaching pre-school in 1981. Could be considerably more than 10 yrs older, since surely not every teacher has their best anecdote occur straight out of college. Anna could be 15, 20, 25 yrs older, if she really exists.

Also, until 2002 it looks like Virginia Heffernan was pursuing graduate school and a PhD in English Lit at Harvard (Cambridge, MA), so she may well not have been living in NYC until after 2002.

Yet, somehow she knows a considerably older woman who just happens to have been in NYC back in 1981 and who just happens to have had Donald, Jr. in pre-school. None of this is impossible, I’m simply saying that it seems very unlikely. How many journalists know many pre-school teachers, especially those considerably older? It just does not seem like the odds are in favor of this story panning out.

1. Preschool up until 10 or so years ago meant those who were 4-5.

2. No name of the school is given

3. I would think Don Jr would have had a private nanny or teacher.

4. Someone remembers what happened years ago? Was there no follow up to this incident?

Why bother with all the analysis. Let me cut through the Gordian knot for you. Liberals and Progressives and Socialists LIE. Remember, for them, the ends justify the means, no matter how heinous those means may be. You can assume if they make a claim about a political opponent, his family, or even his cat, it is a LIE. . . created at the spur of the moment to cast all of them in the most unflattering light possible.

Usually, it is a projection of what the one saying would have said or done.