Media Helps Turn ‘Obamagate’ Into Hillary’s Emails

Margaret Sullivan: “As you may recall, the news media — from Fox News to the New York Times and plenty of others across the political spectrum — managed to make the relative molehill of Hillary Clinton’s dicey email practices into a daily obsession, roughly equal to the mountain of Donald Trump’s financial and personal transgressions.”

“Well, don’t look now but this is happening again before our eyes. Its name this time is ‘Obamagate.’ That’s a moniker that, in President Trump’s outraged tweets, is rendered in all capital letters, but let’s not.”

“This vaporous, apparently made-up offense, according to Trump, is the political crime of the century — and, heck, last century too, since he claims that it makes the 1970s Watergate scandal look like child’s play.”