A Jan. 24 op-ed by Dana Milbank suggested that current White House Counsel Donald McGahn may have improperly borrowed text from another law firm’s filing in a matter before the Federal Election Commission when a brief filed by McGahn on behalf of the Trump campaign included language nearly identical to a brief filed 15 days earlier in the same case.

After publication, Andrew Herman, of the firm Miller & Chevalier, and the author of the earlier brief, informed The Post that the similarities between the briefs were the “product of a joint defense between the parties.” Herman did not raise that point in his earlier conversation with Milbank. The Post has taken this column down in light of this new information that was not available prior to publication.

Dana Milbank: Taking responsibility for a mistake goes both ways