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Trump shrugs as Wolf Blitzer details his assault on the press in WSJ award speech
Power, Smirks, and RetaliationThe SceneAt the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer used the stage to highlight The Wall Street Journal’s reporting on Trump’s lewd birthday poem to Jeffrey Epstein and Trump’s lawsuit against the paper, which Blitzer said revealed a reporter’s home address. Trump sat there and shrugged. That is the whole picture: the press documenting misconduct, and the president answering with contempt.Who Actually Holds PowerThis is not a story about journalism embarrassing power in some abstract civic-pageant sense. The power is still with Trump, because…
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