USA Today Changed Headline About Donald Trump Abortion Stance At Behest Of Biden-Harris Campaign
USA Today stealth-edited a headline about Donald Trump’s stance on abortion at the behest of the Biden-Harris campaign.
Monday morning, the outlet published the headline "'The will of the people’: Trump opposes national abortion ban; says states should decide" in reference to a video the former president posted on Truth Social hours prior.
Later in the day, USA Today changed the headline to "Donald Trump says states should decide abortion policy, avoids talk of a national ban."
The article does not contain an editor’s note explaining the revision.
According to Mediaite, the paper edited the headline less than two hours after a complaint from Biden's team during a press call including Biden Campaign Manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez, Deputy Communications Director Brooke Goren, and pro-abortion advocate Kaitlyn Kash.
"One particularly egregiously false headline even said Trump, quote, ‘opposes a national abortion ban and will leave it up to the will of the people,’" said a Biden-Harris staffer.
How convenient?
Former President Donald Trump made an appearance at Philadelphia's Sneaker Con to unveil his new, all-gold, $399 "Never Surrender" sneakers. (Getty Images)
USA Today told Fox News Digital in a statement that headline updates are "not uncommon" for breaking news. "
"Our mission is to report the facts as accurately as possible. As part of our routine editorial process with breaking news, headline updates are not uncommon. In this instance, the headline was updated to more precisely reflect the story," the statement reads.
Sure. But how many of those changes sans an editor's explanation were set out to appease the sitting administration?
Does the above statement mean the outlet plans to update its bevy of inaccurate "breaking news" stories about which the Trump campaign complained?
Of course, not.
USA Today governs with intense sensitivity during election years, knowing how any one story could sway a potential on-the-fence voter to the dark side (Donald Trump's side).
The mission for USA Today and its ilk is one-fold: prevent Trump from returning to the White House. At all costs.
This week, a sitting NPR editor detailed how the outlet dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop story to help Joe Biden win the election. A former New York Times editor recently made similar claims regarding that paper's approach to election coverage.
We know the Biden administration is in frequent contact with the leaders of social media companies, such as Facebook, to help dictate the visibility of various news stories. You can consume those details here.
It would appear Biden's handlers influence what the legacy media prints and edits, as well.
(It's only April.)