West Wing Reads The NYT Kavanaugh Smear Shows Why the Press is the Least-Trusted Institution in America

The NYT Kavanaugh Smear Shows Why the Press is the Least-Trusted Institution in America “A Columbia Journalism Review poll released this year found that half of all Americans have ‘hardly any confidence at all’ in the media, which beat out even Congress as the institution for which the public has the lowest confidence,” Marc Thiessen writes in The Washington Post. “It’s not hard to see why. Last week, CNN reported that the CIA was forced to pull a highly placed source inside the Kremlin because of concerns that President Trump might burn him — when it turns out the decision to extract the source was made before Trump took office because of leaks from senior Obama administration officials.” Then over the weekend, The New York Times published a story claiming a “previously unreported” sexual assault allegation against Justice Brett Kavanaugh. “One small problem: In the book, Pogrebin and Kelly write that the female student in question ‘refused to discuss the incident’ and that ‘several of her friends said she does not recall it.’” The Times left that part out of its initial story, later adding a “clarification.” One more thing the Times decided not to mention: The man accusing Kavanaugh in its story “was a member of Bill Clinton’s legal team at the same time that Kavanaugh was working for independent counsel Kenneth Starr” during the Lewinsky investigation. Click here to read more. “President Trump’s immigration policies are steadily curbing the flow of illegal immigrants across our southern border — but some Democrats are determined to keep the humanitarian catastrophe going for as long as possible for political gain and at America’s expense,” National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd writes in RealClearPolitics. According to Politico, some House Democrats are looking for “payback” at the President for taking action to address illegal immigration. Optimism in America’s construction industry is at an all-time high, Paul Bedard reports for the Washington Examiner. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which helped compile the new index, “noted that the industry is running short of workers and that 61% of commercial contractors plan to hire in the next six months.” By applying maximum pressure against terrorist networks, “the American people know President Trump’s priority is the safety of our nation from coast to coast and all of our troops around the world,” Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) writes in the Aiken Standard.