He shouldn’t have been there to begin with, as a top aide to President Donald Trump, given the long-standing and credible charges of domestic abuse from Holderness, along with another of his ex-wives and his former girlfriend.
Porter’s resignation — the very same day the photo of his ex-wife’s beaten face was made public by the Intercept — speaks volumes about how reality can prevail.
Well, that was more than 400 years ago. Can we still count on that in an era of bot-powered hashtags and hyperpartisan lies?
“Conventional media is not equipped to deal with willful lying in the public sphere,” wrote journalist Josh Marshall last week.