Donald Trump has effectively replaced Fox News as the center of information for Republicans.
By Jared Yates Sexton
“Lookit that!” the man at the bar said, thrusting his phone under the nose of his buddy nursing a Coors Light. “Is this a joke?”
I
was sitting in my favorite hole-in-the-wall in my hometown and minding
my business. The past few days I’d been on the road interviewing people
for an article and was already exhausted, but not too exhausted to sit
in front of the TV that morning as former FBI director James Comey
testified before Congress that he’d felt like the president had
effectively tried to obstruct justice. It was the kind of
inside-baseball event that usually only the most ardent CSPAN viewers
would’ve been concerned with, but to my surprise, it was all the people
in the bar wanted to talk about.
“He’s a leaker!” the guy said, doing his best Donald Trump impression.
The
president’s son Donald Trump Jr. had live-tweeted Comey’s testimony
that morning and had latched onto his admission that he’d leaked his
notes from a meeting with Trump to his friend, a Columbia professor,
who’d then passed them onto the press.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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