![]() ![]() ![]() Some openly conceded that the details within it were a bad look for Trump, regardless of their illegality. Throughout the day, hosts and pundits examined key parts of the Mueller report, spending significant time reiterating that it did not offer evidence of collusion. Kyle Pope, 5:40pmĬoverage on Fox today was, for the most part, even-keeled. Mueller could, for example, finally be the turn that convinces a surprisingly credulous White House press corps-credulous in spite of everything we’ve seen-that Trump’s words have lost their value, that his history, now enshrined in Mueller, of lying to and about the press to further his interests and save his presidency should now be reflected in everything we say about him. We’re left to survey the damage he’s done to the credibility of a free press in America. Sanders has lost whatever speck of credibility she once had and Trump’s claims of fake news have to be weighed against the findings of Mueller. ![]() I remember her claim at the time (that she personally had spoken to numerous FBI officials, who told her they had lost faith in James Comey), and thought then that it was ridiculous. Particularly egregious was the admission by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, that she had made up part of a statement to the press in the briefing room in 2017. It wasn’t nearly as muddy as Trump would have had us believe. Time and again, the report cited reporting by the Times, Post, CNN, and others, and provided outside, third-party proof that the media was right and Trump was wrong. The Mueller report, among many other things, exposed those Trump lies as what they were, which were cynical attempts to discredit bad news even though it was true. Things got muddled, neither side emerged clean. Until Mueller, the battle between Trump and the press had been a frustrating standoff: media outlets reported damning things about the administration, Trump and his lackeys claimed they were wrong or exaggerated or fake, prompting reporters, or sometimes their editors, to firmly stand by their stories. Given what we learned in the Mueller report about the tendency of Trump and his acolytes to lie to and about the press, it’s unlikely that any news conference would have been worth the effort. Once, he made a few prepared remarks the other, he walked to a plane for his Easter holiday. ![]() The president showed up in public twice Thursday, one of the most high-stakes days of his presidency, but he took questions from the press in neither appearance. Maybe it’s best for all of us that there was no Trump press conference today. And we’ll be teasing out the themes worthy of more attention in the coming days. We looked for who reported first and who did it right, for misinformation surrounding the report, and at how media outlets in a polarized world reported the same news very differently. It’s an enormous media story, even for Donald Trump’s administration, which sees itself as much a media operation as a national government. As reporters scrambled to read and make sense of the 448-page PDF, CJR live-blogged the coverage of Mueller live. The redacted Mueller report has now been officially released. Did William Barr, the attorney general, mislead in his summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report? Will whistleblowers, even news outlets, be exposed in the document? Did the press get ahead of itself in reporting on Trump and Russia? ![]()
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