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I profiled Arthur Schwartz, the aggressive Trump-world operative who has become known for waging war on reporters thedailybeast.com/how-trump-jrs-…
In recent years, Schwartz has threatened to sue a reporter at the Daily Caller, shopped dirt about reporters at outlets like Page Six, GQ, and Politico, demanded journalists defend him from mean tweets, and gotten into a bar argument with a CNBC staffer: thedailybeast.com/how-trump-jrs-…
He got to know a lot of political reporters on the Trump beat as a potential source. He's been known to, for example, show journalists bits of message exchanges between himself and people like Trump Jr. or Bannon thedailybeast.com/how-trump-jrs-…
Multiple people who know Schwartz told me that while he occasionally had good info, other times his tips were dubious. He tried to shop a story that John Kelly didn't wash his hands after using the White House bathroom (no one went for this one) thedailybeast.com/how-trump-jrs-…
Schwartz said I shouldn't write this article because he was "basically a fucking troll." But over the past few weeks, nearly a dozen people in Trumpworld, including current and former admin officials and members of Congress, called me to heap praise on him thedailybeast.com/how-trump-jrs-…
Schwartz has been convinced that CNN PR has been trying to get me to write this story (they haven't). In a phone call recently, he said “I’m gonna do eight minutes on Tucker about how you guys are basically CNN’s hit-piece bitches."
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