The New York Times ran a hit piece on Donald Trump, apparently to hurt his chances against Hillary and the writers (Who shall remain nameless…I will refer to them as Goebbels 1 and Goebbels 2) didn’t let the truth get in their way. The Times started out their article with what they felt was the most egregious act against a woman Trump perpetrated. Her name is Rowanne Brewer Lane. The problem for the Times is the story she told them is not the same story they printed.
Here is the way the Times described it:
Donald J. Trump had barely met Rowanne Brewer Lane when he asked her to change out of her clothes.
Donald was having a pool party at Mar-a-Lago. There were about 50 models and 30 men. There were girls in the pools, splashing around. For some reason Donald seemed a little smitten with me. He just started talking to me and nobody else.
He suddenly took me by the hand, and he started to show me around the mansion. He asked me if I had a swimsuit with me. I said no. I hadn’t intended to swim. He took me into a room and opened drawers and asked me to put on a swimsuit.
–Rowanne Brewer Lane, former companion
Ms. Brewer Lane, at the time a 26-year-old model, did as Mr. Trump asked. “I went into the bathroom and tried one on,” she recalled. It was a bikini. “I came out, and he said, ‘Wow.’ ”
Mr. Trump, then 44 and in the midst of his first divorce, decided to show her off to the crowd at Mar-a-Lago, his estate in Palm Beach, Fla.
“He brought me out to the pool and said, ‘That is a stunning Trump girl, isn’t it?’ ” Ms. Brewer Lane said.
Now, this is the way she says she described the story to the writers (Goebbels 1 and Goebbels 2):
“If anybody would ask me, how did you meet Donald Trump? You are going to get the story of how I was at a pool party at Mar-A-Lago with my agency and a lot of other people and it was a night party and I had a photo shoot that I had done all day and I had another photo shoot the next day, and I almost didn’t go, but my agent asked me if I would please come up and just enjoy for a while and so I did, and I didn’t wear a bathing suit. I didn’t have a swimsuit,” she said.
“I came from a shoot like I said, and I started talking with Donald and chatting with him over the course of the first maybe 20 minutes I was there, and we seemed to get along in conversation nicely, and it just very normally and naturally evolved into a conversation. We started walking around the mansion. He started showing me the architecture. We were having a very nice conversation, and we got into a certain part of it and he asked me if I had a swimsuit. I said I didn’t. I had not really planned on swimming. He asked me if I wanted one. I said OK, sure. And I change into one, and the part where I went back out to the pool party and he made a comment now that’s a stunning Trump girl right there, I was actually flattered by. I didn’t feel like it was a demeaning situation or comment at all, and that’s what I told the Times, and they spun it completely differently.”
When the host, Ainsley Earhardt asked Lane why the Times would do such a thing, she said:
“Well, obviously they feel like that they need to do something to make him look bad or go along with their article, you know. I don’t know how many people have spoken out about it. I’m very happy that I can, because I have the right platform to do this. I don’t know how many other girls feel like they were misquoted, but I know that for a fact I was, and I don’t want that out there. That’s not how it — that’s how it was. That’s not how it felt, and it’s just not what I want out there. He was a very good guy, Donald, and I think he’s doing a good job in this race and I think that some people have a problem with that.”
Lane has not talked to Trump or any of the other women mentioned in the article and her attempts to reach the authors has been fruitless. I wonder how many more women will step forward.