>>The Atlantic - I'm a longtime subscriber - was never a mainstream news outlet - it's a monthly magazine first published in November of 1857 which billed itself as a "journal of literature, politics, science, and the arts," and that's what it is now.

Yes, but within hours its claims were amplified across the MSM and in political advertisements produced in record time. The next morning an Atlantic reporter asked Biden about Trump's soul on MSM national news. MSM authorities asked Trump for an apology. Etc etc.

The Atlantic is an ocean, not a little pond of purity disconnected from everything else.

As an aside, we used to value empathy meaning understanding the other fellow's POV. Do you ever stop and wonder how such an article might look to people outside the Atlantic's mileu? No attempt to get WH's reaction before publication? Advertisements based on it in record time? Exclusion of exculpatory evidence, even now by some still quoting it in the MSM? In your shoes, I think I'd be dismayed and worried.

>>If your life depended on it... which person would you believe?:
>>a. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of the Atlantic.
>>b. Donald Trump.

Really? Thankfully I'm an observer who can mostly escape the whole divisive malarkey.

>>The only problem for me with Jeffrey's piece was that it really didn't surprise me.

When it comes to Donald Trump, clearly there's now millions more "first hand" authorities than just the Atlantic's sources. Do you ever stop and consider the source of your certainty, assuming you don't have "first hand" knowledge as that term used to be defined?