It Looks Like Trump's White House Lied to NYT About Harvard Deal

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14. The NYT listed three reporters on that story

Including Nicole Wallace's husband Mike Schmidt, but apparently no one reached out to Harvard? This reminds me of the time Dick Cheney had a story planted in the NYT, via Judith Miller, about Iraq running a nuclear weapons program and later cited that story on Meet the Press to justify the Iraq invasion. Miller later claimed that her job was to simply report these leaks and not assess their veracity. Apparently that's still the rule at the Times.