When the media didn’t care about secret talks with Russia

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Until the press uncovers audio of President Trump promising the Russian government anything that comes even close to what former President Obama did, it’s time to stop behaving like the White House is paying its staff in rubles.

The only secret conversation between a White House official and a Kremlin operative that the public knows about and in which something absolutely questionable took place is the one from March 2012, when Obama told then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in the heat of the election, that he would have “more flexibility” to negotiate with Russia once re-elected.

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