Posted on 01/19/2017 3:45:42 PM PST by Olog-hai
Investigative reporter Wayne Barrett, a scourge of New York City power brokers from Rudolph Giuliani to Mike Bloomberg during a decades-long career with the Village Voice and an early and tenacious chronicler of President-elect Donald Trump, died Thursday at age 71.
Barrett, who had been battling interstitial lung disease, died at NYU Langone Medical Center, his family told The Associated Press. […]
Few reporters knew Trump as well as did Barrett, whose death came less than a day before Trump was to be sworn in as the country’s 45th president. He began covering the budding real-estate developer in the late 1970s and his expertise and the cache of records sitting in his basement drew dozens of reporters from around the world after Trump declared his candidacy in June 2015.
“The most remarkable thing is that the leading birther in the United States is succeeding this president (Obama),” Barrett told Democracy Now! interviewer Amy Goodman shortly after Trump’s stunning defeat of Democrat Hillary Clinton. “It’s just — I mean, I just — I can’t imagine it.” …
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Tough diagnosis.
He obviously didn’t like Trump.....However, I hope he got good with the Lord.....if not.....yieks.
Let me help you set the tone for this thread.
Good riddance to this hack.
There, I said it.
It was hard for a lot of people to imagine it.
Typical out-of-touch reporter for the Lying Leftist Media.
I’m guessing he gave Democrats a pass and couldn’t live under a President Trump. Prayers for a misguided soul.
I’m so glad he lived long enough to see Trump win the election. Yeah, I don’t care if that sounds mean.
I do think it is a shame he died, however.
So sad...
It was hard for a lot of people to imagine it. But I’m glad he got to see it happen. ‘Hometown boy does good’
Hillery ran against Trump
Hillery created the birth issue on Obama
And the left keeps saying it was Trump
Barrett got that completely backwards. It was in Hillary Clinton's campaign against Obama that the 'birther' story began. So Donald Trump DEFEATED the leading birther!
I guess he couldn’t bear to see Trump ascend to the Presidency..
Had a lady a long time ago...that I think of often.... She had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis....No fault of her own....
She was in her 70's early 80's maybe...had been married for 50 years...her husband was living..and with her.
She was a DNR.....She looked up at me once...and said..."Help me!" I said we are doing all we can.....
She died a couple days later..............
F him and The Village Voice.
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