Ramesh Ponnuru, Columnist

Trump Is Right: Someone Is Out to Get Him

All those stories that make the president look bad have a source.

He’s not paranoid. 

Photographer: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

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President Donald Trump, “who has never been convinced that his aides have his best interests at heart, has felt increasingly aggrieved” in recent months. We have that word from two reporters for the New York Times, Maggie Haberman and Katie Rogers, and it fits with what we have seen from him in public.

The reporters explain Trump’s anger as a function of his “sense of paranoia.” But this is typical MSM nonsense. Trump is absolutely right that someone in his administration keeps undermining him.