[ditty_news_ticker id=”25027″]In a Thursday item about urban gentrification at its “Upshot” blog which also appeared in its Friday print edition, Emily Badger at the New York Times took a gratuitous shot at Donald Trump over a mid-2016 statement which was true at the time — and, contrary to her insistence that it’s now false, is still true.
Badger, as currently seen at the Times, has written that “Mr. Trump claimed during the (2016) campaign that the homicide rate in his new home in Washington rose by 50 percent, apparently citing the previous year’s crime statistics.” Gee, that was because those stats were the latest available. But because it is 2017, and preliminary info for 2016 is now available, Badger originally wrote that Trump is wrong, because “In fact, it fell by 17 percent in 2016.” Perhaps in reaction to being called out by the Weekly Standard’s Ethan Epstein for trashing Trump for not having a crystal ball, the Times has stealth-edited Badger’s related paragraph. – READ MORE
