In an attempt to defend its hiring of Ali Watkins, the young reporter caught having an affair with a now-indicted Senate staffer responsible for protecting some of the country’s most delicate secrets, the New York Times needs the reader to believe several incredible things: President Trump, the Justice Department, and “right-wing” commentators are
It appears that the only place where Trump administration officials can safely dine these days is Chic-fil-A. The renegades of #The Resistance have exchanged pitchforks for salad forks and now are harassing Trump associates (and their families) while they try to eat dinner. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and her family, which includes young children, were kicked
In the media’s rush to exploit the plight of migrant children this week, the public testimony of Michael Horowitz has been buried or, more likely, ignored by the news media. Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, testified for more than 10 hours on Capitol Hill, taking questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee on
Peter Strzok—the ubiquitous FBI agent connected to the Hillary Clinton email investigation, the Trump-Russia counterintelligence probe, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team—reportedly was escorted out of FBI headquarters on Friday. It's unclear what prompted Strzok's departure, but it is probably not a coincidence that his exit took place the day after the Justice Department's Inspector General released his report on
When reporters work too hard to earn a Pulitzer Prize for orchestrating the political assassination of one of the president’s most effective cabinet members, sometimes, in their zeal, they can make a big mistake. That is exactly what happened over the weekend when the New York Times was forced to post a lengthy
During his recent book tour, ex-FBI Director James Comey made it clear that he detests Donald Trump. Comey mocked Trump’s appearance—commenting on his “orange skin” and the bags under his eyes—and compared the president to a mob boss. He said Trump is unfit to be president, and even questioned his marriage. On Twitter,
The case of Ali Watkins offers mothers an opening to have an uncomfortable yet necessary conversation with their daughters: Don’t sleep your way to the top. One would think in this #metoo, female empowerment, equal pay, don’t-even-tell-me-my-dress-is-pretty climate of workplace taboos, that conversation would be unnecessary. Twentysomething women and their successors have been
Responding to news that the phone and email communications of New York Times reporter Ali Watkins were seized as part of the FBI's investigation into leaks of classified information, folks in the media are crying foul. Watkins is referenced in a three-count indictment against James Wolfe, the man once in charge of classified information for the Senate Intelligence Committee, who was arrested and charged this week
Of all the post-2016 credibility casualties—the Clintons, the FBI, Hollywood, professional athletes, late-night comedians—the American news media is the most bloodied. After fluffing Barack Obama for a decade—so much so that the former president still claims with a straight face that his presidency was scandal-free—the press is going after the Trump White House
How can a president obstruct justice when he did not know there was any justice to obstruct? For more than a year, Donald Trump’s foes have pinned their impeachment hopes on the idea that the president obstructed justice when he allegedly told then-FBI Director James Comey in February 2017 to “let this go.”
