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Jackie Calmes

Jackie Calmes: Tell-all Trumpists — you should have come clean long ago

The predictable pile-on has begun.

With the recent release of their separate books on Donald Trump, reporters Maggie Haberman (New York Times) and the spousal team of Peter Baker and Susan Glasser (New York Times, New Yorker) are being savaged on social media, especially in the anti-Trump Twitterverse, for allegedly sitting on information against the former guy that they should have reported sooner, and if possible while he was still (dis)serving in office and running for reelection.

Instead of doing their day jobs, the criticism goes, the reporters held back newsy details to increase their book sales.

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