In October 2018, Baron, along with many staffers, warmly greeted Bryant on a visit to the Post newsroom–a visit that provoked expressions of concern among some female employees, according to sources, because of the 2003 rape allegation. Citing a censorious email that Baron sent her on Sunday—“Felicia,” he wrote. “A real lack of judgment to tweet this. Please stop. You’re hurting this institution by doing this”—Sonmez added: “Washington Post journalists endeavor to live up to the paper’s mission statement, which states, ‘The newspaper shall tell ALL the truth so far as it can learn it, concerning the important affairs of America and the world.’