New York Times ‘Fact-Checks’ Trump’s State of the Union—Before He Delivers the Address.
Before the State of the Union address, politicians and interest groups from the party opposite the president sometimes offer “prebuttals,” denunciations of the president’s remarks even before they’ve been released or spoken. These anticipatory denunciations of unseen, undelivered remarks are the stuff of speculative, spin-cycle political talking points, not news. Yet this year, the New York …