Press misses real news while bashing Trump

Here is all you need to know about the Donald Trump-hating Washington/New York media establishment.

While the press was hysterically fixated on porn star Stormy Daniels and her alleged one-nighter with the president a decade ago, it missed the biggest story to come down the pike in months. And that was CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s secret visit to North Korea over Easter weekend to meet in Pyongyang with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

That visit was followed by this weekend’s stunning news that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un seemingly halted all testing of his nuclear missile program, which also caught the media unawares. Not that Trump supporters care one way or another what Trump did or did not do with porn stars and hookers when he was a private citizen and a playboy. While the media cares, his supporters don’t. They only care what he is doing for the country.

Besides, whatever Trump did with women before he became president pales in significance compared to what Bill Clinton or John F. Kennedy did with women when they were president.

Even as The Washington Post and The New York Times lined up to receive the annual Pulitzer Prizes they award themselves, neither newspaper, nor any of the Trump-bashing television networks, had a clue about what Pompeo was up to when he left Washington for North Korea. What is extraordinary about the situation is that Pompeo is a high-visibility Washington official. He is not only a former member of Congress and director of the CIA but is also Trump’s nominee to succeed Rex Tillerson as secretary of state.

Pompeo went to North Korea to lay the groundwork for proposed direct talks between Trump and Kim over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, and nobody knew a thing about it. While other U.S. dignitaries have visited North Korea before, Pompeo’s trip stands out not only for the secrecy surrounding it, but more importantly for the stakes involved.

Some have compared it to national security adviser Henry Kissinger’s clandestine trip to then-closed Communist China. That visit paved the way for the historic meeting of President Richard Nixon with Chinese leader Mao Tsetung in Beijing that opened China to the world.

In some ways, a meeting between Trump and Kim Jong Un is even more important. Unlike China back then, North Korea has nuclear armed missiles aimed at the United States, and Kim has threatened to use them. What is astonishing is that while Washington reporters have “sources” that can tell you what Trump watches on television in the privacy of the White House, they were unable to ferret out information about Pompeo’s clandestine visit. Pompeo, after all, had to get on a plane in Washington, get off a plane in Pyongyang, and then board another plane back to Washington. Where was the media? He made the visit over Easter weekend, April 1, but The Washington Post did not find out about it until April 17 — more than two weeks later, and only did so after it was leaked by the Trump administration.

The leak was timed to coincide with Trump’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Mar-a-Lago, where the two leaders discussed the proposed upcoming conference with the North Korea leader.

“We have had direct talks” with Kim Jong Un, Trump teased at a press conference, before the White House leaked the story about the Pompeo visit.

The news also coincided with Pompeo’s pending confirmation vote as secretary of state by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but was not expected to bolster his chances, given Democrat opposition. While missing the Pompeo story, the press meanwhile cavorted in the Stormy Daniels carnival and promoted disgraced former FBI Director James Comey’s book, “A Higher Loyalty,” which should be subtitled “Confessions of an FBI Weasel.”

Against this media backdrop for obtaining salacious and malicious anti-Trump sound bites, Pompeo slipped in and out of town unnoticed, unobserved and uncovered.

It’s clear the Washington/New York media establishments have lost their way. They ought to throw those Pulitzers in the Potomac.