Trump and his advisers are deeply frustrated that the disclosure by Trump Jr. has overshadowed the positive coverage they expected to receive from the president’s trip abroad, as well as other issues they hoped to spotlight this week, such as the Senate health-care bill and trade.
A handful of Republican operatives close to the White House are scrambling to Trump Jr.’s defense and have begun what could be an extensive campaign to try to discredit some of the journalists who have been reporting on the matter.
Their plan, as one member of the team described it, is to research the reporters’ previous work, in some cases going back years, and to exploit any mistakes or perceived biases. They intend to demand corrections, trumpet errors on social media and feed them to conservative outlets, such as Fox News.
But one outside adviser said a campaign against the press when it comes to Trump Jr.’s meeting could be futile: “The meeting happened. It’s tough to go to war with the facts.”
Attacking the press was a feature of Trump's campaign, and has carried over into his actual presidency.
That being said attempting to dig up dirt on journalists in order to embarrass them publicly, or threaten them privately, is on a whole other level.
And the fact that Fox News, or any other news outlet, would cooperate with an operation like this is shameful and demonstrates a complete lack of journalistic ethics.
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