It’s always the cover-up.
Status and Semafor are both reporting that a claim by ABC News as to why it pulled an error-laden story about Donald Trump Jr.’s ties to a defense contractor is simply not true. The network says it deleted the story because it had accidentally been “published prematurely” before it was finished. Those damn content-management systems.
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But Natalie Korach writes for Status (sub. req.) that a spokeswoman for 1789 Capital, which lists Donald Trump Jr. as one of its partners and which invested in the defense contractor, says she spent the better part of last Wednesday going back and forth with ABC News as they vigorously defended the story. The article was finally pulled on Wednesday night with no explanation, only to reappear on Friday with some significant edits. “That narrative of incomplete reporting didn’t match up with the defense the editor gave me,” 1789 spokeswoman Alexa Henning told Korach.