Mrs Smith

Monday’s Hot Take What Did Dan Wootton Know? Dan Wootton wants to know why Meghan Sussex didn’t tell the Met, her private secretary, her communications secretary, or the media about allegations concerning her father. There’s one inconvenient problem with that attack: the Met already had the fucking letter. The Met says it received Roslyn Loveless’s letter in January 2019 and passed it to the office of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Meghan says she was assured the allegations were being investigated. She was also reportedly advised against speaking publicly because doing so could jeopardize any potential investigation. So what exactly was she supposed to report to the police? Why is Wootton interrogating Meghan instead of asking what the Met did with information already in its possession? Now let’s turn those questions back on Dan. The Sun has admitted that Loveless spoke to the paper about her concerns in 2018. That means the newspaper heard about those concerns before the Met passed the letter to the Sussexes in 2019. Wootton was working at The Sun and was promoted to Executive Editor later that year. Yet he now claims he never knew a single thing about allegations concerning Thomas Markle during his time there. Really, Dan? The Sun says nothing could be published or investigated further because there wasn’t enough solid evidence. Who made that decision? Was Wootton informed? Was the story dropped because the evidence couldn’t support it, or was it buried because it fucked up the narrative the British press had already decided to sell about Meghan? Wootton continued putting Thomas Markle in front of cameras to attack his daughter. He even asked Thomas whether Meghan had “always had the capacity to lie.” Thomas was useful when he could be presented as the heartbroken father abandoned by his cold and dishonest daughter. Serious questions about him would have complicated that profitable little storyline, wouldn’t they? Now Wootton is branding Meghan a liar because she initially recalled the letter being received in 2018 when the Met’s records place it in January 2019. Her spokesperson acknowledged that she may have been mistaken by a few months and accepted the Met’s time stamped record. That is called correcting the record. It is not proof that somebody lies about everything. Wootton expects “I knew nothing” to settle every question about him while treating Meghan’s corrected recollection as a confession of dishonesty. Apparently, “recollections may vary” only when the recollection belongs to Dan. And since Wootton wants to judge somebody else’s character, his own record is fair game. Laurence Fox made degrading remarks about journalist Ava Evans on Dan Wootton Tonight. Ofcom found that Wootton’s limited challenge failed to mitigate the offense and instead exacerbated it. GB News suspended him, and he later left the channel. This is the man we’re supposed to accept as the fearless referee of everybody else’s character? Wootton has spent years grafting off the Sussexes, turning their family pain into content and feeding his audience its daily dose of Meghan hatred. Keep them angry. Keep her name in the headline. Keep the clicks coming. Then dress the whole rotten operation up as fearless, independent journalism. That’s not courage. That’s a fucking business model. Dan Wootton is no neutral referee. He’s a bully with a platform, a mean girl with a microphone, and a grifter whose credibility deserves scrutiny too. Stop putting Meghan Sussex on trial and answer the damn question, Dan. What did you know, and when did you know it? @danwootton