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Laura Ingraham: ‘Experts’ wrong about Trump once again, May jobs report shows

The so-called experts who’ve been predicting President Trump’s demise since the moment he took office were wrong once again Friday, when a positive May jobs report was released, Fox News’ Laura Ingraham says.

“It was obvious that many on the left were just giddy a couple months ago that the virus had devastated the booming Trump economy. They were thrilled and they were wish-casting gruesome jobs numbers from April, basically all the way to Election Day,” Ingraham said on “The Ingraham Angle.”

“And they predicted that the economy would shed another eight million jobs in May. Well, it was their hate and their anger toward this administration that continued to consume whatever good judgment or sense they have. And today, the credibility of all those who forecast the doom and gloom, well, it took a major body blow when the stunning May jobs numbers came in.”

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The Labor Department’s May jobs report showed employers added a stunning 2.5 million jobs last month — the biggest increase on record. The nation’s unemployment rate dropped to 13.3 percent from 14.7 percent.

Ingraham accuse media critics of allowing their “bias” to influence their predictions.

“These are the most dishonest people ever,” Ingraham said. “Just own up to it, OK? You detest Trump so much that you allowed your own bias to get in the way of what should be reporting and real data analysis.”

“These are the most dishonest people ever. Just own up to it, OK? You detest Trump so much that you allowed your own bias to get in the way of what should be reporting and real data analysis.”

— Laura Ingraham

“The media figures who furrow their brows and huff and puff about the president at every turn, obsess over every tweet. All the left-wing economists,” Ingraham said. “The social scientists were desperate to usher in their era of a new normal. They’ve been predicting Trump’s imminent political demise since day one.”

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Ingraham accused them of being wrong on multiple issues.

“Their predictions about Russia and Mueller? Wrong. Their predictions about impeachment? Wrong. Their prediction about Trump’s China tariffs? Oh, yeah. Wrong. Their predictions about the USMCA? Wrong. Their predictions about the coronavirus? Wrong.”

“Their predictions about Russia and Mueller? Wrong. Their predictions about impeachment? Wrong. Their prediction about Trump’s China tariffs? Oh, yeah. Wrong.”

— Laura Ingraham

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Ingraham put forth that her audience has more intelligence than the experts.

“And as I’ve said time and again, you, with your common sense, are so much smarter than most of these people will ever be,” Ingraham said. “Again, they’re not really experts. They’re just people who go on TV to play the role of experts.”

Fox Business’ Megan Henney contributed to this report.

Pete Hegseth blasts DC mayor, says National Guard prevented desecration of monuments

Were it not for National Guard soldiers deployed to Washington, D.C., this week, all of the most cherished monuments in the nationa’s capital would have been defaced by violent protesters, Fox News’ Pete Hegseth said Friday night.

In addition, the White House likely would have been besieged, the co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend” said during an appearance on “Hannity.”

Hegseth knows firsthand, because he spent some time serving with the Guard in D.C. during the unrest.

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“I was there for three nights on the streets of Washington, D.C.,” Hegseth said. “At one point, it was me and a handful of other guys standing at the Vietnam War Memorial to defend it from people who would want to deface it, after the Lincoln Memorial.”

Hegseth said that while he was stationed at The Wall, he prayed and began to think how similar the situation was to that experienced by troops returning from Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, many of whom received hostile welcomes in the U.S.

“I remember saying a prayer there and thinking, ‘This is what it’s like to be a Vietnam veteran — what they went through when they came home,'” he said.

“I remember saying a prayer there and thinking, ‘This is what it’s like to be a Vietnam veteran — what they went through when they came home.'”

— Pete Hegseth

“If we had not been there, if the National Guard had not been there, every single monument would’ve been defaced, everything single business would’ve been looted and they would’ve laid siege to the White House in an unending fashion,” he continued.

Hegseth also blasted D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser for being irresponsible and reckless in her handling of the Guardsmen and the protesters.

He also confirmed that Bowser essentially evicted several National Guard troops from a Washington hotel this week.

“That was the hotel I was staying at,” he said. “I can confirm that the guys that were still there have been kicked out of the hotel by the mayor. “The men and women in uniform who had nowhere else to stay, that is where the Army hotel had been set up so that they could protect the very city that she supposedly runs.”

Hegseth said that if not for President Trump’s swift actions to station the Guard, Bowser would’ve had “no way out of the mess she was in.”

While stationed in the District, he and other Guard members were subjected to “the most vile things” people could say — despite the fact they were there to defend the peaceful protesters’ First Amendment rights.

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“Without [the Guard], you do not have any peaceful protest — and without what the president did in calling in the National Guard and the other people, Washington, D.C., would be a very different place tonight,” he said.

Host Sean Hannity agreed with Hegseth’s sentiment, calling Bowser “radical” and saying she used up precious city resources to paint a large “Black Lives Matter” slogan along 16th Street, which leads to the White House.

President Trump, he said, also blasted Bowser and compared her to Minneapolis Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey.

Bill Maher: ‘Reckless’ lockdowns helped fuel riots, could lead to ‘blood in the streets’ after election

“Real Time” host Bill Maher offered a dire warning that violence will ensue regardless of who wins the November election.

During a panel discussion that aired Friday night, Maher suggested that the “reckless” lockdowns mandated in response to the coronavirus outbreak helped fuel the riots following the death of George Floyd.

“This lockdown that we’ve been living with — do you agree with me? — that this has a lot to do with the unrest in the streets? That when you coop people up and when they have no hope and no job, that they — why not go out in the streets?” Maher asked. “I wonder what America will look like, what police departments look like if they have to fight this all the time.”

He continued, “I feel like this experiment, this reckless experiment in closing down an entire country for months at a time is not going to look good in the future and this is one reason why.”

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MSNBC analyst Michael Steele — a former chairman of the Republican National Committee — pushed back, saying Americans “saw the rationale” of staying inside to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but praised the George Floyd protesters for “wearing their masks,” showing that people are still “conscious” of the pandemic.

Maher pointed to the “100,000 small businesses” that have been lost as a result of the shutdowns, many of them “disproportionately” black-owned.

“It’s almost is about what in the long run is going to cause more death,” Maher explained. “The head of the U.N. said a couple of weeks ago he expects hundreds of thousands of children to die because of what we did to the economy. I know they’re not all Americans so they don’t count as much to Americans, but I think that matters somewhat.”

Maher also addressed the media-hyped “100,000 mark” of coronavirus deaths in the U.S., noting that “hospital-acquired infections” also kill 100,000 every year, something he noted gets “no headlines.”

Moments later, Maher pivoted to the 2020 election and after discussing who should be Joe Biden’s running mate, the “Real Time” host predicted a grim forecast no matter what the outcome is.

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“Whoever wins in November — be it Trump or be it Joe — there’s gonna be blood in the streets, right?” Maher posed to the panel. “I mean, if Trump wins, I can’t imagine the kind of demonstrations we saw the last week not repeating themselves. And if he doesn’t win, we already know Trump’s statements. I can read you his statements about tough people. … ‘I have the support of the police, the military, the bikers. … I have the tough people. They don’t play it tough until they,’ meaning Democrats, ‘go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad.’

“That sounds to me like an invitation for the tough people to get in the streets,”Maher said.

Panelist Rosa Brooks, a law professor and author, dismissed the idea that Trump “has” the complete support of the police and military, but expressed concern about the hypothetical situation that Trump will refuse to leave the White House following an election defeat and urged that a plan should be made in advance.

Hannity: In the ‘new’ Democratic Party, it’s ‘woke’ to abolish law enforcement

In his opening monologue on Friday, “Hannity” host Sean Hannity said that it is clear, from the comments and actions of several Democratic Party officeholders across the country, that it is now en vogue to try to end the custom of police and law enforcement.

Hannity pointed to several examples, including in Minneapolis — which has had protests and looting since the death of George Floyd there last week.

In the Minnesota city, both City Councilman Jeremiah Ellison — the son of the state’s Democratic attorney general Keith Ellison — and City Council President Lisa Bender called for the “dismantling” of the Minneapolis Police Department.

On Twitter, Ellison added that doing so would not mean it would simply be reassembled after being “dismantled.”

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Hannity said the city’s representative in the House of Representatives, Democrat Ilhan Omar, echoed a similar call as well.

“Sadly, this call to action is not just taking place in Minneapolis,” he said. “In liberal cities all across America, Democrats now are taking big steps to defund or dismantle their police.”

He said Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Eric Garcetti has pledged to cut $150 million from the LAPD — and later Friday referred to members of the force as “killers,” which earned him a strong rebuke from the officers’ union.

“There are similar antipolice proposals including among New York City councilmembers — in that case, 40 or so of them,” he said, adding that Hillary Clinton’s former campaign spokesman Brian Fallon urged the defunding of police in a recent social media message.

“So clearly in the new radical far-left socialist Democratic Party, it is now officially woke to abolish the police,” Hannity said.

Hannity pointed in turn to a tweet from Washington Examiner writer Byron York, who essentially asked Democrats to have their proverbial bluff called.

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“Maybe it’s time for some enterprising blue-state municipality to go bold and eliminate its police force. See what happens,” York wrote.

“As you are watching tonight, ask yourself this question: How do you feel? Are you comfortable with police being replaced by militias like Black Lives Matter and others?” Hannity asked his audience.

“According to Gallup, we have that answer, it’s a resounding no. The vast majority of Americans trust the police. In fact, according to Gallup, only the police, the military, small businesses receive a net positive favorability rating,” he said, adding that some who have expressed sympathy for those calling to defund police have also shown rank hypocrisy when it comes to law enforcement.

Hannity pointed to Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who the host said has stated she understands the sentiment of the pro-defund-police crowd. He noted Whitmer — at the same time — did not think twice about using the state’s law enforcement to punish otherwise law-abiding Michiganders who ran afoul of her coronavirus shutdown orders.

Biden clinches Democratic presidential nomination with latest delegate haul

Forget saying “presumptive.”

Joe Biden is now the Democratic presidential nominee, after reaching the threshold of 1,991 pledged delegates needed to clinch his party’s nomination.

“It was an honor to compete alongside one of the most talented groups of candidates the Democratic party has ever fielded — and I am proud to say that we are going into this general election a united party,” Biden said in a statement. “I am going to spend every day between now and November 3rd fighting to earn the votes of Americans all across this great country so that, together, we can win the battle for the soul of this nation, and make sure that as we rebuild our economy, everyone comes along.”

Biden now has 1,993 delegates, according to The Associated Press. There are still contests to come in eight states and three U.S. territories.

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The former vice president became the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee in April, after his last remaining rival for the nomination – Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont – suspended his campaign and backed Biden.

But Sanders has kept his name on the ballots as he continues to capture delegates in order to have influence in the voting on the party’s platform at the summer nominating convention. With Sanders winning a small percentage of delegates, and with many states that were scheduled to hold primaries and caucuses in April and May pushing back their contests until June or even later due to health concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, Biden’s timetable to clinch the nomination was delayed.

In April, the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) hammered out a deal to begin joint fundraising and other partnerships. So Biden’s clinching of the nomination is mostly a formality and doesn’t really alter his relationship with the national party.

“Vice President Biden is our presumptive nominee and we are already coordinating across all areas with his campaign to prepare for the general election,” David Bergstein, DNC director of battleground state communications, told Fox News.

Biden will formally become the party’s standard-bearer when he’s officially nominated in August at the Democratic National Convention.

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Four years ago Hillary Clinton also clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in early June. The former first lady, senator from New York, and secretary of state went over the top on June 6, thanks to a combination of pledged and superdelegates. Sanders – who battled Clinton for the nomination in a bitter and divisive primary process – didn’t endorse his party’s nominee until a month later, at a rally in New Hampshire.

In reforms made by the Democratic Party as a result of the friction in the 2016 primaries, superdelegates – party officials and Democratic governors, senators, and House members – were stripped of their ability to back a presidential candidate in the first round of convention balloting.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

‘Law & Order: SVU’ to address George Floyd’s death and coronavirus pandemic in new season, showrunner says

“Law & Order: SVU” will address the death of George Floyd — and the protests that followed — in future episodes of the long-running NBC series, according to showrunner Warren Leight.

Leight appeared on The Hollywood Reporter’s podcast “TV’s Top 5” on Friday, explaining that Floyd’s death “has to come up and it will” (via People magazine).

“There are ways, we will find our way in to tell the story,” Leight told the outlet. “Presumably our cops will still be trying to do the right thing but it’s going to be harder for them and they’re going to understand why it’s hard for them.”

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Leight went on to share that the “SVU” writers’ room will see changes in an “effort to bring in new voices, fresh voices, different voices.”

As for the drama show itself, Leight explained that “SVU” has “tried really hard in the last year to show how class and race affect the outcomes of justice in society,” however, he noted that he’s “beginning to suspect ‘really hard’ wasn’t enough.”

Mariska Hargitay as Lieutenant Olivia Benson in the ‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit’ episode titled, ‘Info Wars.’
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“This has to be a moment where people make themselves uncomfortable — where people in power have to make themselves uncomfortable,” he said.

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And when it comes to how cops are viewed on “SVU,” Leight said that he “can’t make every episode about a bad cop.” Still, he stated that Lieutenant Olivia Benson (played by Mariska Hargitay) “makes mistakes … but she’s empathic, which is I think what separates the cops on our television show from a lot of what we’re seeing these days on our livestreams.”

Leight added that he’s “been made uncomfortable by a number of shows that glorify the use of violence in interrogation or the use of threat.”

Across the country, people have been protesting against police brutality, specifically against members of the black community, in the wake of the death of Floyd, who died while in police custody after an officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeled on Floyd’s neck for eight minutes, moments that were captured on cellphone video. In the footage, Floyd, 46, shouts “I cannot breathe” and “don’t kill me,” before losing consciousness. He was later pronounced dead.

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Since-fired Chauvin was later charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death. The other three officers at the scene — Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng, and Tou Thao — were also fired and charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.

The future “SVU” episodes will also touch on the novel coronavirus pandemic, Leight said.

“We’re going to reflect New York in the pandemic. What happens to someone who is sexually assaulted during the height of the coronavirus outbreak,” he shared.

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Back in February, it was announced that “Law & Order: SVU” would be getting a three-year renewal.

Cardinal Zen, outspoken critic of Chinese Communist Party, condemns Vatican’s silence on Hong Kong security law

A retired Roman Catholic archbishop and outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party is blasting the Vatican‘s silence on China’s efforts to exert more control over Hong Kong, likening it to political pandering with little regard for faith.

Joseph Zen, 88, who served as bishop for Hong Kong from 2002-09, expressed disappointment and worry to the Crux newspaper over the Vatican’s reluctance to speak out on Beijing-backed national security law on the semi-autonomous territory.

“We are worried, we are very worried,” he told the news outlet, which focuses on news related to the Catholic Church. “We need a miracle; we need a miracle from heaven.”

Hong Kong has been besieged by months of large-scale protests — that were temporarily interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic — over a series of laws endorsed by China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) that many believe will chip away at the civil liberties and freedoms not available to those living in mainland China.

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Joseph Zen, retired cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, poses for a photograph in Hong Kong, China in 2018. Zen — the retired but still outspoken former archbishop of Hong Kong — told Bloomberg News last month that he wrote to Pope Francis to denounce efforts by the Vatican to reach a landmark agreement with Beijing on the appointment of bishops in China. (Paul Yeung/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The national security law imposed by China rather than Hong Kong’s own legislative body lies in direct conflict with the United Nations-registered Sino-British Joint Declaration. The 1997 agreement handed over Hong Kong, previously a British colony, to Beijing as long as Hong Kong’s people were allowed to retain some liberties not afforded to Chinese citizens.

The law will change Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, or Basic Law, to require the territory enforce measures against anti-government behavior such as pro-democracy demonstrations. On Thursday, Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing legislature passed a law criminalizing disrespect to China’s national anthem.

The law was passed while pro-democracy activists held a candlelight vigil in to commemorate the 31st anniversary of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square massacre, an event that is all but stricken from Chinese history books and China’s highly restrictive Internet.

Zen said he initially hoped the Vatican would condemn China’s actions and voice support for protesters.

“In Hong Kong, in all this time of turmoil, with so many young people suffering the brutality of the police, not a word from the Vatican,” he told the paper. “I’m sorry to say that we have nothing to expect from the Vatican. In these past few years, they have never said anything to reproach China for their persecution.”

He added that the Vatican is “always trying to please the Chinese government.”

An example of the church’s capitulation to Beijing, Zen said, is the bishop vacancy in Hong Kong that is being held up until a suitable candidate can be approved by Chinese officials.

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“I don’t think that the choice of a bishop should be guided by these political reasons. So, we are worried,” he said. “Maybe the Holy See is not following the criterion of faith, but is subject to political considerations, and that’s very dangerous for our diocese.”

The Vatican and China reached a deal in 2018 over the right to appoint bishops in the country. Zen has blasted the deal as “disastrous.”

Pope Francis has made efforts to reshape the church since his 2013 election as pontiff by being more inclusive and speaking out on issues. He recently condemned racism amid demonstrations and riots that have raged in the United States over the death of George Floyd.

Fox News’ Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.

Uber Eats stops charging delivery fees to black-owned restaurants

Uber said it will make changes to its ride-hailing app and Uber Eats delivery service to support black-owned businesses.

In an email to customers late Thursday, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said Uber Eats will promote black-owned restaurants on its app, and that the service will not charge delivery fees to those restaurants “for the remainder of the year.”

Uber will also offer discounted rides to black-owned small businesses “who have been hit hard by COVID-19,” though it did not add how much of a discount would be given.

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“I wish that the lives of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others weren’t so violently cut short,” the 51-year-old CEO wrote. “I wish that institutional racism, and the police violence it gives rise to, didn’t cause their deaths.”

Khosrowshahi also pledged that Uber will continue to crack down on discrimination, harassment and racism on its platform, and will hold its users accountable “to these standards of basic respect and human decency.”

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“I respectfully ask anyone not willing to abide by these rules to delete Uber,” he wrote.

Shares of Uber were up 3.5 percent early Friday afternoon, at $37.70.

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Twitter search for ‘racist’ shows Trump’s profile as top account

Twitter’s search algorithm produces President Donald Trump’s page as a top result for “racist” or “racism.”

The result was noted by several twitter users and reported by Cnet, which had several reporters verify that it was not a joke but indeed an authentic result on Twitter. Fox News checked and noted Trump’s Twitter account is listed as the top result under the “people” tab.

A screen shot showing Twitter search results for “racist.”

Even when the search is conducted in incognito mode or while not signed into a Twitter account, Trump is still the top result.

A Twitter spokeswoman told Cnet that when users mention an account along with certain terms, the account and the keywords can become algorithmically linked as a recommendation. Users have recently been talking about Trump and racism in a number of posts, likely in response to his actions regarding the national protests over police brutality.

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Trump has had an increasingly hostile relationship with Twitter, which came to a head when the social media site applied a “fact check” tag to one of the president’s tweets and censored another for “glorifying violence.”

Trump responded by escalating the situation with an executive order that curbed legal protections for social media platforms. The move drew criticism for potentially making a platform liable for what its users say, true or false.

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In addition, the president suggested that he might set up a commission to explore possible bias in social media platforms. Twitter responded by stating it will now focus on “context, not fact-checking,” a tweet to determine future violations.

NY Times execs ‘take turns apologizing’ to staff amid Tom Cotton op-ed uproar: report

Top leadership at The New York Times reportedly took turns apologizing to its staff who were offended by the publishing of Sen. Tom Cotton’s op-ed calling for troops to be sent to quell riots amid the George Floyd protests.

The Daily Beast reported on Friday of an internal staff meeting that addressed what’s been described as an “open revolt” where dozens of Times journalists took to social media to publicly condemned the GOP lawmaker’s column, insisting it would put the lives of “black @NYTimes staff in danger.”

Times editorial page editor James Bennet offered an apology after he previously defended the paper’s decision to run the “Send in the Troops” piece.

“I just want to begin by saying I’m very sorry, I’m sorry for the pain that this particular piece has caused,” Bennet said. “I do think this is a moment for me and for us to interrogate everything we do in opinion.”

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Bennet acknowledged during a Q&A session that he “should have been involved” in the piece’s approval after it became known that he did not read Cotton’s op-ed before it was published. He admitted that it was the Times who approached Cotton about writing on the subject after he tweeted his support for military involvement in quelling the violence.

Times executive editor Dean Baquet reportedly was “impressed” and “proud” with the staff’s solidarity in the public outcry.

The paper’s executive vice president and COO Meredith Kopit Levien chimed in on the apology tour.

“We all work at the Times because we believe this institution can help right wrongs in a way that few others can. … I’m sorry that this time we increased pain rather than reduced it,” Levien said.

Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger called the op-ed “sloppy” and, according to the Daily Beast, said “the tone was contemptuous and ‘inflammatory.'”

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“I’m not defending the piece, but I suspect there was a good-faith attempt,” Sulzberger said about seeking the Arkansas senator’s perspective.

Times CEO Mark Thompson acknowledged “serious editorial mistakes” were made and that called for the top executive at the paper to have a “weekend of deep reflection.”

On Friday, the Times added a lengthy editors’ note to Cotton’s op-ed attempting to explain why it should never have been published.

“The basic arguments advanced by Senator Cotton — however objectionable people may find them — represent a newsworthy part of the current debate. But given the life-and-death importance of the topic, the senator’s influential position and the gravity of the steps he advocates, the essay should have undergone the highest level of scrutiny,” the editors’ note read. “Instead, the editing process was rushed and flawed, and senior editors were not sufficiently involved. While Senator Cotton and his staff cooperated fully in our editing process, the Op-Ed should have been subject to further substantial revisions — as is frequently the case with such essays — or rejected.”

It later continued, “Beyond those factual questions, the tone of the essay in places is needlessly harsh and falls short of the thoughtful approach that advances useful debate. Editors should have offered suggestions to address those problems. The headline — which was written by The Times, not Senator Cotton — was incendiary and should not have been used.”

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In a statement to Fox News, Cotton Communications Director Caroline Tabler blasted the editors’ note.

“This editor’s note is another humiliation for The New York Times. Senator Cotton stands by every word he wrote,” Tabler stated.

Fox News’ Sam Dorman contributed to this report.

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