Politico did nothing wrong: Jennifer Rubin should know how off-the-record agreements work

Published September 17, 2021 7:07pm ET



Politico went ahead and did some journalism on Thursday evening. Naturally, every wine mom on Twitter went ballistic.

Reporting on the White House’s favorite pundit, Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post, Politico reporters Alex Thompson and Nick Niedzwiadek reached out to the former neocon who has branded herself an “Andrew Cuomo Democrat” in the post-Trump era. After refusing an interview or offer to comment, the duo emailed Rubin one final time about their reporting on her public popularity among White House chief of staff Ron Klain, the State Department, and the Democratic National Committee.

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