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New York Times Scribe Peter Baker Hypes Watergate-Level ‘Smoking Gun’ in Bolton Book

Posted on 27 January 2020

New York Times Peter Baker’s lead-story “news analysis” on Tuesday suggested revelations from an unpublished memoir by Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, John Bolton, could be a Watergate-like “smoking gun” -- or at least would in normal political times. Yet reporters Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt, who broke the story blared across Monday’s lead section have evidently not actually read the manuscript themselves but only have sources summarizing what they say it contains:That notwithstanding, Baker eagerly and perhaps prematurely...