On Friday, the New York Times reported on Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s statement that if meaningful progress in negotiations toward a cease fire in Ukraine did not occur soon, the U.S. would move on to other priorities. The Times article was, as always, an attack on President Trump. The Times framed Rubio’s statement as somehow pro-Russia, as though Russia has no incentive to end the fighting:
The United States will abandon efforts to end the war in Ukraine if it proves impossible to broker meaningful progress in the next several days, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in remarks that piled pressure on Kyiv as he departed Paris on Friday.
The Times painted Trump as a friend and ally of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, quoting Trump as saying “I was the apple of his [Putin’s] eye.” Pretty damning, right? Only–oops–wrong apple. Today the paper issued a correction:
An article on Saturday about the remarks made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio regarding the war in Ukraine misquoted President Trump in a comment about Ukraine and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. “It was the apple of his eye,” Mr. Trump said, not “I was the apple of his eye.”
The “it,” I take it, was Ukraine.
You really can’t trust anything that appears in the New York Times. It is a left-wing propaganda machine, not a legitimate newspaper.
