the bolded is literally a link to mcenany's statement. There is no mention of the actual witnesses just that 8 have "debunked the story". She supposedly brings up 2 new "witnesses". The first, Derek Lyons a staff secretary, straight up says I was with the president the day after. The second new witness, Dan Walsh, confirms the bad weather call and the helicopters weren't able to fly but thats about it. Other than that they just gave personal opinions (lol) as to why they don't believe he'd say such a thing.
I've seen Huckabeef come out and deny it but if you want to call her credible when she has straight up lied or told half-truths during her press conferences while press sec, that is a strange one to take at face value. I do know Bolton only said he didn't hear it but could see him saying it (this one probably hurts more than it helps). Trump even slipped up (lol again) and said he even called Melania that morning back at the White House when she was there with him.
This is not a personal attack as I don't typically do those here (swam is gone so we good now) but man this is reaching. I agree with you on the fact that news reporting (even the Atlantic) has their fuck ups (probably too many than should be happening) and its beyond shitty when the correction doesn't get nearly as much traction as the original. Also in complete agreement that there is shitty journalism on both sides and journalists should in fact be arbiters of the truth. Keep the opinion pieces in the opinion section.
On the Trump story being debunked, I cannot agree with you on that.