Associated Press Debunks Its Own Smear of Trump-Backed Bernie Moreno Days Before Ohio Election

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The Associated Press ran a tawdry smear piece Thursday attacking leading Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno despite debunking the allegations within its own story and withholding critical evidence further eroding the tale’s validity.

The AP ran the hit piece questioning Moreno’s potential involvement despite a sworn statement from a former intern for Moreno’s company that the intern created the profile as a “juvenile prank” using an email address managed by staff, including interns. The AP also, by its own admission, lacked evidence linking Moreno to the account.

16 years ago an intern at Moreno Auto created an account at AFF as a prank, which he quickly abandoned that same day. We have provided AP a copy of a signed letter from that intern, admitting to this, as well as another signed letter from a former VP of Mr. Moreno’s company, confirming this intern’s employment at the time the account in question was created.

The AP did not include Rosa’s full quote, cutting pertinent information. Critically, the AP did not acknowledge that the email account was managed by staff and that multiple staffers in the company, including interns, had access to the email address used to create the AFF profile. The hit piece also did not acknowledge that the AFF account was never actually used.I am thoroughly embarrassed by an aborted prank I pulled on my friend, and former boss, Bernie Moreno, nearly two decades ago.

 

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