Asked in New York on Thursday for a policy to solve the childcare crisis, former President Trump offered two minutes of gibberish with no coherent ideas to address the problem. But you’d never know that from reading mainstream media write-ups. Mark Jacob and others are branding that kind of reporting as “sanewashing,” and they say it’s past time journalists stopped pretending Trump is behaving like any other public official by cherry-picking his words and leaving out the rambling stream of consciousness

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