Justin Baldoni does not actually believe the NYT fabricated a story What he DOES believe is that T*umpism has sown enough distrust in legitimate journalism that he can whip up public outrage in his defense He’s taking a page from the T*ump playbook because it’s now a reality that you can have irrefutable evidence of wrongdoing and it won’t matter He’s trying this tactic because misogyny and misinformation has a huge success rate and he’s betting it will keep working for him