Source for NYT Kavanaugh Yearbook Article is Anti-Trump Politician

The media is continuing to prove they deserve every ounce of criticism that President Donald Trump levies at them.

The Washington Post was caught deliberately covering up evidence that exonerated Brett Kavanaugh earlier in the week. When reporting on accusations from Leland Ingham Keyser, they excluded testimony from her own friends refuting the account.

The New York Times is out with an attempted “expose” on Brett Kavanaugh, this one reporting on the fact that Kavanaugh made reference to a woman he says he kissed in high school in a yearbook. The woman named had previously vouched for Kavanaugh’s character, so the Times reported on her “disgust” on being mentioned by Kavanaugh as an attempt to discredit him.

So what’s the controversy over? According to the Times: “The word ‘Renate’ appears at least 14 times in Georgetown Preparatory School’s 1983 yearbook, on individuals’ pages and in a group photo of nine football players, including Judge Kavanaugh, who was described as the “Renate Alumni.” It is a reference to Renate Schroeder, then a student at a nearby Catholic girls’ school. Two of Judge Kavanaugh’s classmates say the mentions of Renate were part of the football players’ unsubstantiated boasting about their conquests.”

Kavanaugh says that Renate was a girl he kissed in high school, but Renate denies that they did as much as that, meaning that Schroeder might not even be the right Renate.

In fact, the last sentence in the Times article is “Dolphin, and a second friend of Ms. Dolphin’s denied that there was any sexual contact between Ms. Dolphin and Judge Kavanaugh or anyone else in his circle.”

So to recap: Renate is hurt by the “horrible, hurtful, and simply untrue” allegations about a woman that only matches her description based on her first name.

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According to The Federalist, there are plenty of problems with the Times speculation about inside jokes in a 1983 yearbook because the speculation over what a “Renate Alumnius” is was sourced to an anti-Trump politician in Maryland. The original Times article published online on Monday night was quickly scrubbed of a reference to a ‘Mr. Madaleno.’ NewsDiffs, a site that tracks changes to articles at the New York Times, caught the rapid deletion of his name. Reporters Kate Kelly and David Enrich did not explain why it was removed. Richard S. Madaleno Jr., a classmate of Kavanaugh’s at Georgetown Prep, is a state senator in Maryland who recently lost a bid for the Democratic nomination for governor. He garnered headlines for a campaign ad that featured him kissing his male spouse as a rebuke of Trump. The 30-second spot has him telling viewers he seeks to ‘deliver progressive results and stand up to Donald Trump’ before listing things he’s done ‘that already infuriate’ Trump.

A second source for the Times/yearbook article is William Fishburn, a former campaign surrogate for Madaleno.

Their third source was anonymous.

Is there a single person connected to the smears against Kavanaugh that doesn’t have a clear ideological motivation? Because thus far, literally every single woman who has accused Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct has a history of left-wing activism or expresses far-left views on their social media.

So to recap: the Times is speculating that Kavanaugh included a cryptic reference to a woman he slept with in high school in his yearbook while also acknowledging that there’s no evidence the two slept together or did as much as kiss each other. And their source for the speculation? Two anti-Trump liberals, and someone who couldn’t be bothered to be named. And the Times made an effort to later conceal the identity of one of those anti-Trump sources by stealthfully editing his name out of the article.

This isn’t the first time this happened either. The Times also stealthfully re-wrote their entire article on Kavanaugh accuser Deborah Ramirez early today…. and provided no indication at the article that it was changed.

Ramirez’s own best friend says that she never heard of any incident involving Kavanaugh…. and says the allegations are political. And that’s her best friend saying that!

The paper of record, ladies and gentleman.