Remember that time when the New York Times pumped out a hit piece attacking Joe Biden and supposed links between his family and Ukraine—that were spewed out by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani? The journalist who co-wrote that bogus piece has been appointed spokesperson to the President of the Ukraine.
When well-respected former government ethics official Walter Shaub replies to Mendel’s tweet and raises the possibility of a conflict of interest, that should get everyone’s attention.
Has the New York Times become a willing agent of the Trump administration?
It’s a valid question. The NYT was turning up the Giuliani’s conspiracy volume, as the other co-writer of the hit piece proved with his hyperbolic tweet of the story.
And just how bogus was this NYT story? It was bogus enough—that Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine ally debunked his propaganda and smear of the Biden’s.
Ukraine’s current prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko distanced himself from Giuliani, and emphasized that the Ukrainian government had no plans to investigate Biden’s son.
While there is an ongoing probe involving Burisma’s owner in conjunction with a long-running criminal investigation into another mogul, he told Bloomberg, that matter is unrelated to Biden, and neither Biden nor Burisma are directly under investigation.
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The Bloomberg comments appear to be a reversal for Lutsenko, who The New York Times previously reported had reopened the investigation into the Burisma Group, and who has reportedly already met with Giuliani multiple times.
As Biden spokesperson Symone Sanders points out, the NYT continues to enable the propaganda and conspiracy theories coming from the Trump administration and its allies.
No conflict interest here, right? The New York Times has some explaining to do.