This from a University of Alabama Law Professor, MSNBC Contributor AND Obama appointed US Atty in Birmingham. She has 25 years of professional experience as a federal prosecutor
What’s missing from this is NBC’s later retraction of the report .
They issued a correction Sunday after reporting that President Trump described Gen. Robert E. Lee as “incredible,” acknowledging that the president was referring to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
Retractions reads: “An earlier tweet misidentified the general President Trump described as ‘incredible’ at a rally in Ohio,” said the network’s correction. “It was Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, not Gen. Robert E. Lee.”
Cynically, I suggest the Fake News crowd intentionally blasts out this blather, allows the twiterverse to rapidly distribute it, then quietly backtracks once it’s in the public domain–Mission Accomplished.