The Press Owes the American Public an Accounting for Its Errors While Covering Trump

It is better to get into the habit of doing so voluntarily rather than risk lawsuits that may establish restrictions.

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President Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, December 16, 2024, at Palm Beach, Florida. AP/Evan Vucci

Maybe the lesson this Christmas season is that even if turnabout is fair play, at some point, enough is enough.

Start with the specious lawsuits brought against President-elect Trump, to the great glee of many of his “Never Trump” and Democratic detractors. Some of them, especially Alvin Bragg’s March 2023 indictment charging that Trump’s signing off on allegedly false business records in 2017 somehow swindled the electorate in 2016, had an immediate turnabout effect.

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