The way to cover Trump's CPAC speech is NOT to cover his promise to stay in the race if he's indicted, it's to point out how similar THIS SPEECH is for things he may be indicted for.
Emphasizing its inflammatory nature makes you part of the coup attempt.
Trump's play is not about the next election, per se. Reporting it as such is malpractice.
Trump's play is to make prosecuting him an existential challenge for democracy, where his partisans will take out law enforcement to undermine the case.
Trump's play is to ALWAYS reinforce division in society, to ratchet it up, so that his supporters will continue to piss away their lives by attacking democracy to save him.
His play is to keep his supporters distracted from the enormous fraud he commits against them.
Want to report on Trump's outrageousness?
Report on how his people are paying FBI Agents to spy on the investigation into him and his followers.
Blasting CPAC to audiences who would otherwise have ignored it just distracts from all that.
And I agree that @svdate's coverage of the speech--including its emphasis on how poorly attended it is--is far better than most.
According to Politico, bad blood between NYT and Biden go back to Ken Vogel sniffing dick pics on behalf of whoever it is he is a mouthpiece for.
I'd say Biden has a point -- though unclear why NYT is treated any worse than WaPo, whose journos have seeded two devastating (still uncorrected) false claims abt Hunter Biden.
Reminder that @peterbakernyt was part of a NYT team that thought helping Trump obstruct the Mueller investigation was more newsworthy than reporting that Trump spoke to Vladimir Putin alone before writing a false statement about the June 9, 2016 meeting that parroted Putin propaganda.
@peterbakernyt Anon NYT journo says that AG will demand the NYT relentlessly focus on Biden's age unless and until the nepotistic brat and presumed transphobe activist gets an interview with Biden personally.
FWIW, my **hypothesis** is that Person 16 -- the stolen docs witness who said a lot of candid things -- is Eric Herschmann, bc Herschmann says a lot of candid things, like that other lawyers are morons.
Building off that Person 5 would be Ephsteyn, Person 18 Corcoran, Person 49 Susie Wiles. A redacted mention of Bannon in there -- it's not a witness tho.
All hypotheses, mind you.
Note that Person 16 believes all a woman has to do to get Trump's attention is to look like Person 30.