The media are "required" to get headlines and stories out quickly, following what evidence is available. Even FOX News is protected by this when they say things like "Trump said this horrible falsehood that we're reporting on because Trump said it".
Lawyers can't do this. Saying things like "we thought it was true" isn't evidence. And Powell wasn't some random defense attorney trying for reasonable doubt. They were pushing a lawsuit, a bigly yuge one, and as such needed to get beyond the 50/50 mark. And she had nothing.
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Trump claims he made Juneteenth very famous and wonders why "the Blacks" hate him.
No, really.