Dan Froomkin tweets: “Did anyone else find the NYT Trump interview shockingly obsequious? Many opportunities to call bullshit or correct whiffed.”
But it’s not really the fault of the Times’ reporters. There is no other way to keep Trump’s attention engaged–or even to keep an interview going at all–for 50 minutes without a constant stream of, let’s call it, cynically informed enabling and massaging.
Yes, they went a bit too far.