Albert R. Hunt, Columnist

Old Media Leads the Pack Breaking News on Trump

If you want to know about the Russia scandals, read the New York Times and the Washington Post.

July 16, 2017 at 2:00 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.

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One of the more delicious elements of the Trump-Russia scandal is that it's being driven not by social media or television talking heads but by reporters, especially those from two old-line media outlets, the Washington Post and the New York Times.

The Post has broken news about President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and the lies he told about dealings with Russians that forced Trump to fire him. It was the first to report that Attorney General Jeff Sessions misled Congress about his meetings with a Russian diplomat, after which Sessions recused himself from involvement in the Trump-Russia investigation. It discovered that Trump revealed classified information to Russia's foreign minister, and that Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, sought to establish a private communications channel with Moscow and failed to disclose those contacts.