Albert R. Hunt, Columnist

Trump, Russia and a Watergate Veteran's Deja Vu

"When you start seeing a big pushback and blaming it all on the media, you know there's something there."

March 5, 2017 at 3:00 PM UTC

Albert R. Hunt is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was the executive editor of Bloomberg News, before which he was a reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor at the Wall Street Journal.

Been there, done that.
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