Conservative Author Ed Klein Claims Barack Obama Has Been Too Busy Smoking Weed to Resist Trump – News

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Edward Klein deserves some credit. Not in any journalistic or academic sense, but the former New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief and longtime tabloid artist was certainly on the “fake news” trend well before President Trump turned media lies into an en vogue catchphrase.

In a 2005 biography of Hillary Clinton titled “The Truth About Hillary,” Klein was roundly mocked and disregarded after a slew of news sources called out a number of blatant fabrications and seemingly made up anonymous sources.

The book was so bad that a review in the New York Post included the sentence, “Thirty pages into it, I wanted to take a shower. Sixty pages into it, I wanted to be decontaminated. And 200 pages into it, I wanted someone to drive stakes through my eyes so I wouldn’t have to suffer through another word.”

Now, with journalistic accountability all but out the window and social media carrying half-truths to the front of America’s newsfeed every hour, Klein is back to wallow in the mud, defending the Donald with his new book “All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump,” in which the tabloid-minded gossip hound gives some less than convincing claims as…

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