Washington Post s Rubin Misrepresents Emoluments Ruling In Latest Trump-Fueled Gaffe JONATHAN TURLEY
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin is being ridiculed for a column in which she claims that the walls are closing in on President Donald Trump. Critics have noted that in May 2017 Rubin declared the walls are closing in on Trump due to his firing of FBI Director James Comey. Then last October, she declared the walls are closing in due to impeachment. Now the walls are back as if this is one long struggle of transferred claustrophobic anxiety.
The more important aspect however is not the fear of moving walls but the misrepresentation of the recent ruling of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. We previously discussed how some have misrepresented the ruling, but Rubin, again, appears entirely untethered by any editorial (or ethical) requirements of accuracy. Rubin s column is based on another misrepresentation of the underlying facts.
Rubin is marketed as the Post s conservative opinion writer despite a long array of controversial statements about both conservatives and Republicans. Most recently, Rubin declared Trump supporters to be as a group primarily motivated by racism. This is why Trump does this. It is not however Rubin s ideological tendencies but her aversion to facts that that has repeatedly unleashed criticism across the political spectrum.
She seems perfect for the Post.