On Jan. 6, 2021, when rioters forced their way into the U.S. Capitol to halt the certification of a fair and free election, they donned campaign T-shirts, chanted slogans, swore oaths, waved flags, raised signs and told lie after lie. Of course, some rioters did not realize they were lying they were only imitating.
The Los Angeles Times columnist says he was eager to see important and sensitive issues aired publicly, not hushed up and removed from public view with an exchange of millions of dollars behind closed doors.
I wanted the defamation case to go to trial so that we could publicly hash out the issues separating real reporting from irresponsible conspiracy mongering and credulous partisanship.