One of the dangers of writing about how much you enjoy it when someone in the media deservingly gets kicked in the teeth for their arrogance is how you open yourself up to the karmic boomerang. Just a few days ago I mocked George Stephanopoulos — a man who built his public career on savaging the subjects of Bill Clinton’s “bimbo eruptions” back in the early 1990s — for bringing a painfully public comeuppance upon himself and ABC News by wrongfully claiming in March that Donald Trump had been “found liable for rape.” More fool me for writing that piece a day before Trump’s Monday press conference at Mar-a-Lago.
By gum, that presser almost made him seem normal most of the time. There he was, correctly refusing to reveal his strategic hand against Iran, denying that he was pushing Lara Trump for a Florida Senate appointment, reassuring America that the polio vaccine wasn’t going anywhere, and generally acting sane. Yes, he dangled the prospect of a pardon for New York City mayor and Turkish Airlines enthusiast Eric Adams, but that was the sort of nonsense from Trump that we’ve so priced in by now that we no longer even bat an eyelash. (A funnier move would have been to dangle the prospect of a pardon in front of Andrew Cuomo, tanking him in a potential 2026 Democratic primary.) But then, of course, Trump had to go and announce, almost as an aside, that he will be suing retired Iowa pollster Ann Selzer for publishing a bad poll:
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