[See NewsBusters for more.] The journalists at CBS This Morning on Monday leapt to cover illegally leaked tax documents, declaring they show Donald Trump to be a “flop of a businessman.” Guest co-host Josh Elliott played dumb and pretended he didn’t know why a mystery individual would have sent the forms to the liberal New York Times. Talking to two of the reporters who broke the story for the paper, Elliott wondered, “Do you have any sense of why they were sent to you?”
Reporter Susanne Craig portrayed herself as equally baffled: “I've been covering Donald Trump's finances and I covered Wall Street, but I really don't know. I don't know why they selected me out of any reporter in the country.” Could it have something to do with the paper’s aggressively anti-Trump coverage?
