Allow me to put my most sympathetic reaction to the Walter Duranty Prize Board’s predicament in text form: Bwa-hahahahahahaha.
This saga starts with the Pulitzer Prize board’s refusal to withdraw the awards it granted the New York Times and Washington Post in 2018 for their coverage of what turned out to be a hoax about Trump’s supposed collusion with Russia. A special counsel investigation later showed no evidence for that claim, and even later developments identified it as a Hillary Clinton campaign dirty trick that was weaponized by the Barack Obama administration. When Trump demanded a retraction of the awards, the Pulitzer board instead issued a statement standing by the awards and the reporting, claiming to have conducted independent reviews that substantiated both.
Trump then sued for defamation under Florida law within that declaration. The Pulitzer…
