White House aides are all pointing fingers today to place blame on somebody. Yet no one wants to place blame where it belongs. 45 allowed 18 different conversations to be recorded by the same man history says was behind the Watergate tapes. We know where the responsibility lies.

Uh-huh. The same journalist.

NR writer:
And so Trump does 18 interviews with Bob Woodward — after having accused Woodward of manufacturing quotations in his earlier reporting about the administration. Trump called Woodward’s last book a “scam.” He raged that Woodward “uses every trick in the book to demean and belittle” him. And still he talked and talked and talked, embarrassingly eager to please. Why? 

If Trump wants to talk to a large and friendly audience, there’s a whole cable network that is overwhelmingly dedicated to producing Trump propaganda. Sean Hannity, the self-abasing monkey-butler of the Trump administration, has worked harder and longer and deeper in the bullsh** mines than any actual White House staffer has.

Bob Woodward. Tapes. You’d think that the most Nixonian president since Nixon would have seen that one coming. […]