‘Putin Butts in to Claim There Were No Secrets, and Says He’ll Prove It’ – so ran the main headline in the New York Times
on 18 May. The subject was Donald Trump’s supposed revelation of
foreign intelligence assets when he met with Russian officials in the
Oval Office. It isn’t yet clear if anything dangerous was done, but the
US media were showcasing their heavy artillery with a leak of their own,
which had to have come from the White House staff or intelligence
agents on the scene. Mostly, however, the article seemed to be an excuse
to deploy the expression ‘Putin Butts In’ – a cut below the diction
once permitted in the Times. This descent into brashness, which
teeters on the brink of open contempt, has been a feature of American
media coverage of Trump ever since January; it is growing shriller and
more indiscriminate, working up to a presumptive climax no one has
imagined with clarity. Impeachment is the constitutional name for the
fast finale they are hoping for; the idea is that the brass and cymbals
will soon enter, lawyers and good spies, private detectives and who
knows what else – and out the door goes Trump.
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