New York Post Corrects Melania Trump Story

A major mistake.

How’s this for some Rupert Murdoch tabloid sloppiness?

A secondary bombshell aspect of the New York Post’s splashy summer resurrection of nude Melania Trump photos was that the pictures were shot in 1995 and originally published with a dateline of January 1996, raising questions about the circumstances of her arrival in the U.S. and legal right to work here. Politico for example picked up on that angle.

However, per TPM’s Tierney Sneed, the paper got the chronology wrong:

The issue of Max magazine in which Trump’s photos appeared had Cindy Crawford on the cover, the Post said.

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