Elisabeth Bumiller has returned to the reporting beat after a long stint as the paper’s Washington bureau chief, and her seething, even paranoid hostility toward Republican presidents remains intact. The front page of Friday’s New York Times, “Blaming Diversity Hiring, Trump Turns Accident Into Grievance.” The text box read: “Recalling the Extremes of His First Term.”
Predictably, Bumiller’s prominently placed screed went beyond any justified criticism of Trump leaping to conclusions immediately after the D.C. airplane tragedy:
On the morning after a devastating midair collision of an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter that sent 67 people, not one of whom survived, into the icy waters of the Potomac River, President Trump stood behind the White House lectern and for a brief moment did what presidents do….But then, as Navy divers…
