Putin and Trump: Peter Baker Discovers that Russia Sows Partisan Antagonism and Then Helps Them Do So!
Putin and Trump Peter Baker Discovers that Russia Sows Partisan Antagonism and Then Helps Them Do So! posted at 09:20:48 UTC via emptywheel.net I laughed yesterday when Peter Baker tweeted about how “striking” it is that Vladimir Putin is adopting Trump’s perceived enemies as his own. But then Baker wrote up his laughably naive observation into a NYT story . Baker, you’ll recall, is one of NYT’s crack journalists who buried Trump’s admission that he had spoken to Putin about adoptions before writing a false explanation about the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting emphasizing adoptions. Baker and Maggie Haberman chose instead to emphasize Trump’s scripted attack on Jeff Sessions. The Mueller Report showed that NYT’s willingness to dumbly repeat Trump’s script proved even more useful to Trump’s efforts to undermine the Rule of Law than his covert effort to get Corey Lewandowski to ferry orders to Jeff Sessions. And here we are, almost five years later, and Baker still naively
