But perhaps the most damning edit — made just before Soon-Shiong would falsely present the piece as pro-Kennedy — was the removal of this devastating critique at the closing of the piece:

Although RFK Jr. and Luigi Mangione are both responses to the same underlying problem of US healthcare corruption, there is a major difference between them: one operated outside the law to kill one person in defense of millions, whereas the other––via his egomaniacal disregard for scientific evidence––seeks to use law itself to inflict preventable death on those millions.

Let that sink in: Reinhart explicitly warned that RFK Jr’s appointment could lead to the “preventable death” of “millions” — and the LA Times not only stripped this warning from the piece, it then used the neutered version to advocate for Kennedy’s appointment.

This isn’t editorial oversight — it’s literary gaslighting.

Brutal biased and unethical journalism. If the people cared they’d be really upset.