Lock him up
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Perfect that this would be published the same day as the Baquet interview with Clare Malone dropped:
The National Archives confirmed on Friday that it had found classified information among material that President Donald J. Trump had taken with him to his home in Florida when he left office last year and that it had consulted with the Justice Department about the matter.
The agency “has identified items marked as classified national security information within the boxes,” according to a letter posted on the National Archives and Record Administration’s website.
Last month, the archives retrieved 15 boxes that Mr. Trump took with him to his Mar-a-Lago home from the White House residence when his term ended. The boxes included material subject to the Presidential Records Act, which requires that all documents and records pertaining to official business be turned over to the archives.
The items in the boxes included documents, mementos, gifts and letters. The archives did not describe the classified material it found other than to say that it was “classified national security information.”
I’m not saying this story deserves more attention than it will get. I’d say it’s been getting about the appropriate amount of weight — not trivial, not the biggest deal in the larger scheme of things either. But it just underscores the fundamental issue that Baquet to this day refuses to even acknowledge — the extraordinary, sun-blotting level of coverage given to what would be considered a relatively minor scandal with any other politician in world history, choices that have altered the course of American history very much for the worse.
The part about all of this being driven by an assumption that Trump wasn’t a serious candidate so nothing mattered anyway is certainly right, though. Remember when Amy Chozick suggested to an editor who may or may not have been Baquet himself that perhaps spending day after day learning about John Podesta’s risotto technique may not have been the best use of her time?
A few weeks before Election Day, I was stuck in my cubicle poring over John Podesta’s emails. I wanted to be on the road. “I just feel like the election isn’t happening in my cubicle,” I said. “But it’s over,” an editor replied, reminding me that the Times’s Upshot election model gave Mrs. Clinton a 93 percent chance of winning. The ominous “they” who would keep the glass ceiling intact didn’t look that powerful then.
If Ruth Bader Ginsburg had retired strategically and Anthony Kennedy hadn’t rather than vice versa this might not have been an irreversibly catastrophic mistake, but here we are. And a voter could have paid fairly extensive attention to media coverage of the election and had no idea what was actually at stake.