Donald Trump isn’t running for “Boyfriend-in-Chief,” but his former girlfriend does have something to say

Last updated on: May 16, 2016 at 1:15 pm by Mark Meckler

Donald Trump isn’t running for “Boyfriend-in-Chief,” but his former girlfriend does have something to say 2016-05-16T13:15:58-06:00 Mark Meckler

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Over the weekend, many Americans read a hit piece by the New York Times on presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump’s love life. The article began under an eye-catching headline “Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private,” with this sentence:

Donald J. Trump had barely met Rowanne Brewer Lane when he asked her to change out of her clothes.

The piece goes on to describe the negative experience the young Brewer — who was a 26-year-old model when she met Trump — had while dating him. And not just her. The New York Times went to the trouble of interviewing fifty women with whom Trump had a romantic relationship.

There’s only one problem. We know for a fact that the NYT mischaracterized the Brewer’s interview. Politico has the details:

“Actually, it was very upsetting. I was not happy to read it at all,” Brewer Lane said. “Well, because The New York Times told us several times that they would make sure that my story that I was telling came across. They promised several times that they would do it accurately. They told me several times and my manager several times that it would not be a hit piece and that my story would come across the way that I was telling it and honestly, and it absolutely was not.”

Asked what the reporters got wrong, Brewer Lane said they took her quotes and “put a negative connotation on it.”

“They spun it to where it appeared negative. I did not have a negative experience with Donald Trump, and I don’t appreciate them making it look like that I was saying that it was a negative experience because it was not,” Brewer Lane said.

Co-host Ainsley Earhardt asked to clarify if Brewer Lane knew him well and that they dated for several months.

“That’s correct. Yes, and he was never — he never made me feel like I was being demeaned in any way. He never offended me in any way. He was very gracious. I saw him around all types of people, all types of women. He was very kind, thoughtful, generous, you know. He was a gentleman,” Brewer said.

For the record, Donald Trump isn’t running for “Boyfriend-in-Chief.” I hate that I have to write about his romantic past at all, but I think it’s important to speak out when someone is being deliberately mischaracterized.

Though the fact that this article appeared in the New York Times may have been a clue.

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