The media’s ‘disabled reporter’ lie

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So long as the country’s in a crisis over fake news, here’s a fact check the national media desperately need: It’s a fact that President-elect Trump, during the campaign, mocked a reporter who happens to have a physical impairment. It’s fake news, however, that he mocked the reporter because of his affliction.

We’re made to relive this episode now thanks to Meryl Streep’s weeping last weekend over the now two-month-old election results.

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