Remember when the leftist media was upset about Benjamin Netanyahu being in the Situation Room with President Trump? “How dare he?” they cried as they clutched their pearls. Well, at least Israel is an ally of the United States, whereas the media is not, and the media, as horrifying as it is, is only made worse by the President talking to them. Please, Mr. President, stop giving access to these people.

During the first Trump administration, the New York Times got scoop after scoop on the Trump administration from Donald Trump himself. He had Maggie Haberman on speed dial. He complained about her a lot in public, as he should have, but in private he not only took her calls, he called her too. 

I remember thinking he’d be in a much better position if he’d reach out to conservative news organizations, even only every once in a while. Not to give interviews, he did that, but he’d give exclusive information to the Times over anyone else.

I understood it – he grew up in New York City and the Times was THE PAPER of the world. Trump in the 80s and 90s made his fame by appearing in the pages of the New York Post and Daily News, but that was for gossip. Getting in the pages of the Times was the passport to being taken seriously. 

The Times mattered, and you mattered if you appeared in the Times. I remember the........

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