Are we getting all the news from the New York Times? Or only that which is "fit to print"? I have developed enormous trust in Maggie Haberman over the last year or two. Not total; enormous. I, and others, thought she played with a somewhat light touch at time with Trump early on. I thought she was unseemly coquettish with Trump in one interview she did with a colleague. That particular irritation only occurred once. The New York Times has some of the stains of the coquette in its recent past. They are the newspaper of record. They are a proud member of the Establishment. They are "quasi official." They didn't publish their own reporting on the Iraq war because the official told them they would endanger national security. They didn't get the Edward Snowden story because he didn't trust that the Times would find his revelations fit to print.Times-types frequently write obliquely, it requires careful reading, it requires re-reading, it requires patience that after 40 years I quasi gave up. All of which I have written before. Which brings me back to the point. Has Maggie Haberman ever asked anyone official about the 25th Amendment? I guaran-fucking-tee you she has thought of it herself many times, I guarantee you that it has kept her up some nights, and I guarantee you she has talked with her close colleagues about it. You'd have to be living in a country that doesn't have a 25th Amendment to write the things Ms Haberman has written in just the past two days, not to have given some repeated, serious thought to whether Donald Trump is fit for the the office of president. Consider:
-“Failure”
-"catastrophic blunder"
-"greatest failures of presidential leadership in generations"
-"convinced themselves"
-"the approach he embraced was not just a misjudgment. Instead, it was a deliberate strategy that he would stick doggedly to as evidence mounted that...the virus would continue to infect and kill."
-"continues to distort reality"
-"bizarre public statements"
-“nonsensical”
-"abdication of responsibility"
-"governors have sought out Pence"
-"directs his requests to Mr. Pence"
“The president got bored with it,”
-"has at times appeared to inhabit a different universe"
-"has disrupted efforts to mitigate"
-"erratic"
-"Republicans...have spent years avoiding direct comment on his behavior"
You cannot have written those things and not have thought about that thing.
Has Times reporting left anything out on this subject? Others observations, like their own. Other others.
Has Ms Haberman never asked Mary Trump, the principal source for past Times reporting on Donald Trump's finances and who has a PhD in clinical psychology, if she thinks her uncle is fit for office?
Why did Trump have a mental cognition test last week? Was it related to the publication of Mary's book?
Has Ms Haberman ever talked to Dr. Bandy X. Lee?
-“Failure”
-"catastrophic blunder"
-"greatest failures of presidential leadership in generations"
-"convinced themselves"
-"the approach he embraced was not just a misjudgment. Instead, it was a deliberate strategy that he would stick doggedly to as evidence mounted that...the virus would continue to infect and kill."
-"continues to distort reality"
-"bizarre public statements"
-“nonsensical”
-"abdication of responsibility"
-"governors have sought out Pence"
-"directs his requests to Mr. Pence"
“The president got bored with it,”
-"has at times appeared to inhabit a different universe"
-"has disrupted efforts to mitigate"
-"erratic"
-"Republicans...have spent years avoiding direct comment on his behavior"
You cannot have written those things and not have thought about that thing.
Has Times reporting left anything out on this subject? Others observations, like their own. Other others.
Has Ms Haberman never asked Mary Trump, the principal source for past Times reporting on Donald Trump's finances and who has a PhD in clinical psychology, if she thinks her uncle is fit for office?
Why did Trump have a mental cognition test last week? Was it related to the publication of Mary's book?
Has Ms Haberman ever talked to Dr. Bandy X. Lee?