The Los Angeles Times was mocked for an atrocious error in its OJ Simpson obituary – suggesting that former President Donald Trump had served the accused murderer’s prison sentence.
“Long before the city woke up on a fall morning in 2017, Trump left Lovelock Correctional Center outside Reno a free man for the first time in nine years,” writes the left-wing newspaper, somehow confusing the presidential candidate with the candidate. disgraced former NFL player.
“He didn’t get far, moving into a 5,000-square-foot house in Vegas, with a Bentley in the driveway,” the obituary adds.
This embarrassing error was later corrected and Trump’s name was replaced with that of Simpson, who died this week of cancer at the age of 76.
In an editor’s note, the LA Times wrote: “An earlier version of this obituary mistakenly contained a typographical error that used the wrong name to describe Simpson leaving Lovelock Correctional Center.
“The error has been corrected,” it says.
But the outlet was roundly ridiculed online for its gargantuan gaffe.
“LA Times typo in OJ’s obituary: ‘according to LA Times writer Elaine Woo, OJ Simpson was arrested for theft, but it was Donald Trump who served nine years in prison’” wrote Katy Grimeseditor of the California Globe.
“Members of the media just can’t wait to write stories about Trump being found guilty and sent to prison,” she added.
Republican strategist Steve Guest wrote: “Unbelievable. The LA Times is out of control.
And Jake Schneider, GOP Rapid Research Director added: “And I bet they still won’t understand why trust in the media is at an all-time low.”
Simpson served time in Lovelock for his role in a 2007 robbery in which he and a group of armed men broke into a hotel room at the Palace Station Hotel Casino in Las Vegas and confronted two dealers. sports memorabilia, claiming they were in possession of his stolen memorabilia.
The disgraced gridiron great, who died Wednesday of prostate cancer, was acquitted of criminal charges that he killed his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman.
He was later found liable in a civil suit and ordered to pay the families $33.5 million in damages.
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