Though the White House has denied involvement in Arthur Schwartz's project, his efforts are consistent with Trump’s strategy to discredit journalists covering his administration
Political consultant Arthur Schwartz, pictured right, plans to weaponize old posts by journalists to discredit their work. Photo: Sylvain Gaboury/Patrick McMullan via Getty Image Everyone — even the the most dialed-in, savvy observer of the blink-of-an-eye zeitgeist — posts dumb ideas online.
Trained as a lawyer, Mr. Schwartz has endeared himself to members of the president’s family by becoming one of their most aggressive defenders, known for badgering and threatening reporters and others he believes have wronged the Trumps. A test case helps clarify Schwartz’s emerging project, and how the information reverberates through conservative social media. Shortly after the New York Times published an editorial condemning Trump’s anti-Semitic language and a profile of the new White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, Breitbart News published an article featuring anti-Semitic and racist tweets from Times political editor Tom Wright-Piersanti, who was in college at the time of his bigoted posts.
Using journalistic techniques to target journalists and news organizations as retribution for — or as a warning not to pursue — coverage critical of the president is fundamentally different from the well-established role of the news media in scrutinizing people in positions of power.
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