Trump Gives Clinton Cover on Media Relations

Donald Trump’s stiff-arming of the media “has given Hillary Clinton an out that the media-wary candidate and her staff are just as ready to exploit,” Politico reports.

“First the Clinton press conferences and gaggles became rare. Now, the Trump campaign’s foot-dragging in allowing a basic press pool – a group of reporters that share travel duty to cover public events and minimize the logistics burden on the campaign – has given Clinton cover to not institute a protective pool, which would cover the candidate’s every move and ride on the campaign plane in the same way the White House press pool does and which typically begins when the candidates becomes the party’s official nominee.”