President Trump regularly mocks The New York Times, but the paper helped confirm his claim that tape is used to silence women crossing the border. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

President Trump regularly mocks The New York Times, but the paper helped confirm his claim that record is used to silence women crossing the border. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

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The Washington Post was amidst many news organizations to denounce President Trump's claim of tape being used to silence women during illegal border crossings — merely a subsequent New York Times article revealed the president wasn't making things up after all.

Dorsum on Jan. 25, the Post published an update to a piece headlined, "Trump again mentioned taped-up women at the border. Experts don't know what he is talking almost." Information technology claimed the president's "new favorite anecdote" was virtually record roofing the mouths of migrant women.

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Post reporter Katie Mettler wrote that Trump, in pushing for a border wall, was claiming "without evidence that traffickers necktie upwardly and silence women with tape" before illegally crossing the border. The Post called Trump's claims "salacious and graphic," fifty-fifty providing a timeline of Trump's taped-women rhetoric.

"Yet human-trafficking experts and advocates for immigrant women accept said they are perplexed past this increasingly repeated story in Trump's repertoire — and are at a loss for where he got his data. Information technology was non from them, they say; in fact, they have no idea what he is talking almost," Mettler wrote.

Non so fast. Last week, The New York Times published a piece headlined, "Aye, there was duct tape: The harrowing journeys of migrants across the edge." The piece – part of a express-run series on border crossing – reveals that tape is used during border crossings.

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The Times study said that women are "tied up" and "bound," featuring first-mitt accounts from several women who experienced the brutality themselves.

"For weeks, President Trump has been criticized for exaggerating the brutality experienced by migrant women on the border as he makes his case for a wall," the Times wrote. "But at that place is some truth to the president's descriptions of the threat of sexual set on and of women who take been duct-taped and leap."

Trump ofttimes refers to the Times as "failing," and the paper made sure to note that Trump may take been "exaggerating" earlier backing upward his core claim.

"Undocumented women have been duct-taped and tied upward earlier, during and subsequently their migration to the Us, The Times discovered while reporting a story that will soon be published. Maybe not oftentimes, merely it has happened," the Times wrote.

Only information technology was but a month prior that the Postal service brought in experts who claimed that Trump's comments were "completely divorced from reality."

"It's clear that he simply doesn't accept an understanding of what happens at the border," an executive from an clearing legal services and advocacy nonprofit told the paper.

The New York Times published a report detailing that

The New York Times published a report detailing that "women have been duct-taped and tied up" when illegally crossing the border. (iStock)

The Post attempted to deflate Trump's claim while slipping in the disclaimer that experts "did non dominion out the possibility that there are female trafficking victims virtually the edge who take been bound or gagged."

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The Washington Post did not answer directly when asked if a correction or editor's note would exist added to its piece that declared experts are unaware of tape being used during border crossings. A spokeswoman, withal, noted that the Times story reported that trafficking experts told the media they had non heard of such incidents, "as reflected in The Postal service's Jan. 25 story headline."

The Post is hardly the merely news organization that didn't find the use of duct tape to be realistic.

Trump'due south critics speculated that the president might be just making things up or even stealing plotlines from the film "Sicario: Day of the Soldado." The Toronto Star has also tried to debunk the duct-tape claims, once noting that "six trafficking experts" hadn't heard what the president described.

CNN called Trump's duct record story "misleading," Daily Kos chosen it a "weird fantasy," while ABC News wrote that the "Hollywood movie-fashion descriptions… are closer to fiction than fact."

The Times also detailed rape, torture and kidnapping of women during the migration process.