Los Angeles Times O.J. Simpson Obituary Mentions Trump In Wildly Incorrect Way

The Los Angeles Times on Thursday mistakenly used Donald Trumps name instead of  O.J. Simpson in an obituary detailing Simpsons release from prison in 2017.

Simpson died at age 76, his family announced Thursday, ending a life that careened from football superstardom to infamy. He was acquitted in 1995 for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, but a civil jury found Simpson liable for their deaths less than two years later. In 2008, he was convicted of armed robbery in another case. His stay in prison ended in 2017 .

Thats where the name of the GOPs criminally charged presumptive nominee popped up in place of Simpsons.

Long before the city woke up on a fall morning in 2017, Trump walked out of Lovelock Correctional Center outside Reno, a free man for the first time in nine years, the Times obituary read. He didnt go far, moving into a 5,000-square-foot home in Las Vegas with a Bentley in the driveway.

The Times fixed the gaffe, attributing it to a typographical error.

Of course, many readers saw something deeper.

Understandable mistake, conservative attorney and Trump critic George Conway wrote on X, linking to the blunder. It can be hard to keep all these clearly guilty sociopaths straight.

Here are a few other responses, some invoking a certain father of psychology :