Mark Halperin
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I almost never take notes for a variety of reasons.
I wish I'd taken notes during that answer because there's like 40 things you said I want to pick up on.
But I remember the big ones.
They're yours.
There was liberal media bias against previous Republicans before Donald Trump.
But you're right that Trump, like he's done with so much of our political media culture, he's supercharged it.
But here's the confusion to me.
At least partly.
Trump's gotten great political coverage pre being a candidate.
He got great coverage.
He got a lot of coverage.
He understands the media really well.
He solicits the media.
Donald Trump, I recite this all the time because it's so illustrative of his mentality and the mentality of the press before he became president.
Donald Trump, during the transition in 2016, gets elected in November.
During the transition, he went and did...
editorial board meetings at the New York Times and Conde Nast.
That's nuts.
No Republican would do that.
No president, no president-elect would do that.