It probably has more to do with Trump whining about attorney-client privilege being dead when it's not. He's just scared and doesn't realize that there are limits to it. And the bar to break it is extremely high. Probably a bit of poorly executed reasoning. But he's a goddamn moron. How do you respond to some of this nonsense? I had to sit through an economist on the radio try to take seriously things like "trade wars are easy." I follow Trump on Twitter. Dude is seriously unhinged. I don't know how you can rebuke all the bullshit he spews and not make a few rhetorical missteps. But I don't know. I can't speak for the editorial board.
For sure. It's just so unnecessary. Would NYT think that about their reporter-source communications? You shouldn't hold others to a standard that you would never apply to yourself; they come off like whiners here. You don't need to resort to whining to tear down literally everything this jagoff does.