Wall Street Journal reporters object while opinion section prints Trump’s letter to the editor
CNNCNN Business — The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion section published a lengthy letter to the editor from Donald Trump on Wednesday that was full of the former US president’s debunked claims and conspiratorial falsehoods about the election he lost last year. One day later, the Journal’s editorial board justified the decision by saying “we trust our readers to make up their own minds about his statement.” Former Journal staffers said the letter fell far short of the publication’s standards. “I think it’s very disappointing that our opinion section continues to publish misinformation that our news side works so hard to debunk,” one of the reporters said. In fact, that may be one of the very opposite reasons newspapers exist.” But the Journal editorial board argued that publishing Trump’s claims is well within its purview.
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