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Jayster84

(106 posts)
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 11:10 AM Saturday

Be careful. This could be another Memogate ala GW Bush

During Bush the seconds presidential campaign, George W Bush was getting beaten up over his preferential treatment he received in getting into the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war. He also was AWOL a lot. It was alleged at the time he went AWOL due to his abuse of cocaine. None of it could be proven. Until a memo from the time was given to Dan Rather and CBS who ran with the supposed evidence. Within minutes of the story running, right wing bloggers were claiming that typewriters at the of the memo’s writing did not have the font that was being used. This blew up the authenticity claims and effectively inoculated Bush from further questions on the National Guard issue. It is probably true that Karl Rove supplied the fake memo and then had the bloggers expose it to accomplish that goal.
Trump’s minions could have gotten the WSJ to publish the card, Trump sues, then the WSJ admits that the card is not genuine. Trump is then inoculated from the story. I don’t think it would work but I think it could be tried.

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Be careful. This could be another Memogate ala GW Bush (Original Post) Jayster84 Saturday OP
Nope. I believe WSJ's legal team is loaded for bear. Or the story never would have been published emulatorloo Saturday #1
I don't think it would matter unless Trump released all the files. David__77 Saturday #2
Typewriters at the time the memo was written musette_sf Saturday #3
The important thing about that memo Blue Full Moon Saturday #4

emulatorloo

(46,010 posts)
1. Nope. I believe WSJ's legal team is loaded for bear. Or the story never would have been published
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 11:14 AM
Saturday

in the first place. I also believe the reporters have more stories to come. The louder Trump screams “Fake” the more evidence WSJ will publish.

Of course YMMV.

musette_sf

(10,409 posts)
3. Typewriters at the time the memo was written
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 11:44 AM
Saturday

DID have proportional spacing. The IBM Executive had proportional spacing. It wasn’t terribly unusual to see them before Selectrics totally dominated IBM’s offerings. I used one at the job I had at that time, and I got quite good at it. A capital W was five units, a capital I was one unit, and there was a half-unit spacebar along with the standard one-unit spacebar so that one could even do primitive kerning. That whole thing pissed me off so much, especially what it did to Dan Rather.

Blue Full Moon

(2,461 posts)
4. The important thing about that memo
Sat Jul 19, 2025, 12:04 PM
Saturday

Was the expert that they had said everything on it was accurate.

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