Rowanne Brewer Lane, the star lead anecdote in the New York Times's Sunday front-page story about Donald Trump's eyebrow-raising private interactions with women, spent Monday morning ripping the newspaper for allegedly misquoting her.
There is little evidence to support the charge; Brewer Lane's complaints, upon close inspection, don't amount to a credible factual challenge.
But the former model, whose initial meeting with Trump is described by the Times as a "debasing face-to-face encounter," doesn't fit neatly into a tale of Trumpian chauvinism, either. Just a few months ago, she gushed to "Inside Edition" about the "wonderful time" she had as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's girlfriend in the early 1990s.
Before speaking to the Times, Brewer Lane was already on the record this election as a Trump defender — an ex who remembers him as "funny" and a "gentleman." So it wasn't surprising to see her push back — in live interviews on Fox News and CNN — against her inclusion in an unflattering portrayal of the candidate. And it was even less surprising to see Trump seize on Brewer Lane's protestations in an attempt to discredit the Times's entire, six-week reporting project.
The Times's story opens on the scene of a 1990 pool party at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., where Brewer Lane was one of about 50 models in attendance. The first sentence is an attention-grabber.
Donald J. Trump had barely met Rowanne Brewer Lane when he asked her to change out of her clothes.
Is the sentence true or false?
"False," Brewer Lane said on "Fox & Friends." She continued — and then appeared to contradict herself.
Source: Washington post
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