On Thursday, Donald Trump held a formal press conference and took questions from the gathered journalists, facing challenging questions and confronting issues. Imagine this: a candidate making themself available to the media and addressing policy. How novel and unexpected. (Kamala Harris has now gone 20 days since she became the announced Democrat candidate without doing so.)
In practiced fashion, the New York Times decided it would provide a team of fact-checkers to tear into Trump’s many claims. What is notable about this exercise is how we have never seen such an application of diligent journalism with the other party. Take, for instance, the public coming out party for Tim Walz this week and his spewing of numerous inaccuracies; we did not see a gathering of analysts dispatched for that event.
But as expected as these admonishments have become, there is one other aspect we can…
