Trump: NYT Just Admitted What I’ve Been Saying All Along

In a series of tweets over the weekend, President Trump highlighted a leaked transcript from a New York Times staff town hall meeting in which the paper's executive editor openly stated that over the last two years the paper had "built [its] newsroom to cover one story" — the Robert Mueller-debunked Trump-Russia "collusion" narrative — and was now shifting to Trump's "racism" and "division."

After suffering backlash from several Democrat presidential candidates and other left-wing critics over a straightforward front-page headline accurately describing Trump's speech on the El Paso and Dayton shootings as "TRUMP URGES UNITY VS. RACISM," the Times caved to the pressure and altered its headline to "ASSAILING HATE BUT NOT GUNS."

The next Monday, the paper held a "crisis town hall meeting," the transcript of which was leaked by Slate. In the meeting, the Times' executive editor Dean Baquet openly stated that the paper has had a clear agenda in how it's covered Trump and is shifting now to a new agenda.

"We built our newsroom to cover one story, and we did it truly well," said Baquet in reference to the narrative that Trump had colluded with Russia, a claim dismantled by the special counsel's exhaustive investigation. "Now we have to regroup, and shift resources and emphasis to take on a different story," said Baquet.

His "vision" for how to cover Trump for "the rest of the next two years": How America has "become so divided by Donald Trump," particularly when it comes to race.

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