The New York Times has conceded comments former President Donald Trump made about opponent Vice President Kamala Harris supporting taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for "illegal aliens" in custody were "basically true."
During Tuesday night's debate, Trump said Harris "wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison."
At the time, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, health reporter for the Times, issued a fact-check saying the claim "needs context."
That fact-check showed that CNN reported Harris' support of the policy based on a 2019 ACLU questionnaire she filled out.
"She said she supported using taxpayer funds to give access to gender-affirming care to transgender and nonbinary people, including those in immigration detention and prison," Stolberg wrote as part of the fact-check.
A Times article the next day said Trump's comment was "the wildest sounding attack line that was basically true."
Time magazine also had to do an about-face after writing that Trump's claims were "false."
"The original version of this story mischaracterized as false Donald Trump's statement accusing Kamala Harris of supporting 'transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.' As a presidential candidate in 2019, Harris filled out a questionnaire saying she supported taxpayer-funded gender transition treatment for detained immigrants," the Times correction read.