It's The Watergate Break-In Except It's The Reporter Breaking In And Also It's Lies!

If Corey Stewart's story isn't true, may his Confederate ancestors strike him down.

Corey Stewart, the Minnesota transplant to Virginia who's made protecting "Confederate Heritage" a top issue in his campaign for the US Senate, accused a nosy New York Times reporter of breaking into the apartment of one of his aides. It's a terrific accusation, because while there's no evidence at all and the story makes no damn sense, that doesn't matter at all to people who'd vote for Corey Stewart. They already hate the evil media and know those nasty reporters are capable of all the depravity in the world.

Stewart claimed in a press release that Wednesday afternoon, Times reporter Stephanie Saul went to an apartment in Woodbridge, Virginia, belonging to Brian Landrum. Mr. Landrum splits his time between Stewart's Senate campaign and a part-time job with Prince William County. (Stewart himself chairs the Prince William Board of Supervisors.) According to Landrum, the apartment's door was closed but left unlocked because a houseguest was staying with him and he didn't have a fob (electronic lock thingie) for the guest.

The houseguest, who hasn't been identified, surprised Saul inside Landrum's apartment, Landrum says . Once caught, the wily Times reporter scribbled down a note to call her and left in a hurry, as Pulitzer-winning housebreakers will do:

My guest was listening to music, walking out of the bathroom in a small hallway, and turned around after hearing a noise — turned around, took her headphones off, and saw this older lady standing in my apartment who was turning and getting ready to leave," said Landrum, 25. "My friend was freaked out, and the reporter seemed a little off guard."

Landrum said his friend and Saul had a brief exchange that ended with the reporter dashing off a note asking him to call.

See, home invasions like this are why you always take a gun to the bathroom! Also, why would a houseguest all alone in the wilds of the DC exurbs leave the door unlocked while in the terlet/music room alone, even if she didn't have a key... and oh dear we are overthinking things, aren't we? So here's Stewart being outraged on facebook about this completely true narrative that definitely happened:

Good heavens, she even spoke to his high school debate coach! That sounds like... reporting! 

Police are investigating, but no charges have been filed. We bet they don't find any fingerprints, because you don't get to be a top-flight journalist without knowing how to cover your tracks.

The New York Times, lying like the liberal media always does, denied anything of the sort had happened. In a statement, VP of communications Daniel Rhoades Ha said Stewart's story is "entirely false." We hope he added it was stupid as fuck, but the Times has gotten so timid you should all drop your subscriptions and send your money to Wonkette instead. (Ha probably didn't say that either, the coward.) Ha acknowledged Saul had gone to the apartment while working on the story, but that's it.

"She was told by a woman who opened the door that he was not present," Ha said. "She left a note with the woman for Mr. Landrum asking him to call. At no time did she enter the premises."

The timing of this improbable story of a reporter acting like a common bandit -- but one who dutifully leaves a note -- comes at an awfully convenient time to deflect from the story Stephanie Saul was chasing: She'd gone to ask why his name was included in a Facebook group run by Glenn Kessler, the organizer of last year's deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Landrum was listed as one of the 20 members in a group that had been planning the upcoming Charlottesville Slob Reunion For Good People On One Side, set for later this summer on the National Mall in DC, although the only comment under his name was "what in all fuck" and four laugh-crying emojis." Landrum claims his name was added to the group without his consent and says he doesn't recall typing that, no way, and if he did, it was probably because he was shocked to see what was in the group, yeah, that's it.

Beyond a blanket disavowal of all hate groups, Stewart and his campaign now seem to be focused on pushing this very credible story about the supposed break-in. Stewart's statement was full of all sorts of neat invective!

The fake news media will stop at nothing to destroy Republicans, as we've seen with their coverage of President Trump and others over the last few years [...] Far left media from New York to Richmond have been working overtime to invent wild stories to try to give advantage to Tim Kaine, and now they're breaking into our team's homes in pursuit of their narrative.

In another memorable line, Stewart said "It's like the Watergate break-in, except in this case it's the press that's doing the break-in."

And it's the good honest Republicans who'll make an exciting movie about the incident, only it'll have Kevin Sorbo and Kirk Cameron as the sleuths who blow the lid off the entire scheme, discovering Stephanie Saul's ties to George Soros, and if they accidentally put (((some punctuation))) around those names, that's probably just a typo. MAGA!

Also it's your OPEN THREAD.

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[ WaPo / Inside NoVa / Daily Beast ]