Why didn’t four reporters from the NYT run this down before impugning Benevenuto’s professional integrity? They couldn’t risk it.

Impugning Benevenuto’s professional integrity was part of the narrative that Bill Barr was doing something corrupt right up to the end.

Bill Barr is working on a book. The first effort from the Democrats will be to prevent any publisher from agreeing to print the book. But that won’t work.

So the fallback position is to continue to hammer away on Barr in advance of his recounting of events.

It’s all about the narrative for the NYT — fact or fiction doesn’t factor into it.