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In what seemed like an echo of their handling of the shady sexual misconduct claims against Justice Brett Kavanaugh by Julie Swetnick (now under investigation by the FBI for lying to Congress), Monday’s NBC Nightly News pushed a claim that then-candidate Donald Trump kissed a campaign staffer without consent. They were the only broadcast network to give the claim airtime that evening. They ran with the claim despite admitting to major contradictions and odd behavior from the accuser.
After their segment about President Trump’s trip to Vietnam for the summit with North Korea, fill-in anchor Savannah Guthrie announced: “In the meantime, here at home, the President is facing a new lawsuit. A former Trump campaign worker accusing him of kissing her without her consent.”
The campaign staffer was Alva Johnson and according to her lawyer, who sat down with NBC, “She moved her head aside, he still managed to kiss her on the corner of her mouth. (…) In her words, she thought it was disgusting and creepy.”
NBC White House correspondent Kristen Welker then had to admit that the “witnesses” Johnson claimed were there said it never happened:
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