If reporters were honest with themselves, they would tell you that the chip on their shoulder has nothing to do with President Trump’s 2016 campaign being willing to take incriminating information on Hillary Clinton from Russians. Their gripe is that Trump is encroaching on their own turf.

For two years, the national media have feigned shock that Trump’s son, Don Jr., and his son in law, Jared Kushner, agreed to meet in 2016 with Russians who had promised to provide the campaign with information that would “incriminate” Clinton as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”