otoh he printed trump’s outright falsehood that the US is the only country in the world with birthright citizenship without taking the five seconds required to discover it’s not true—much less knowing it in real time and asking a follow up question.
what’s the use of all that “instinct and work ethic” if he doesn’t know, or know to check, basic facts of the subject matter he’s reporting on?
According to @grynbaum’s reporting, Swan reported on this scoop “for weeks,” but he elevated a fringe legal view in his q’s, did not report that trump’s own circuit appointee had debunked that view 12y ago, and couldn’t correct a factual error in real time or before publication.
