Journalists Versus Seditionists.

The struggle to cover Trump continues to wreak havoc in newsrooms.

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In 2017, Sean Spicer left the White House and hired a lawyer to help him broker a paid contributors’ deal with the news networks. Five of them passed. 

No-one wanted him because he had a “credibility problem.” (Remember those crowd photos from the inauguration?)  Spicer swapped his blue suit for a lime green ruffled shirt and joined ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” then Newsmax and later NewsNation.

His exaggerations seem small beans compared to the attempts to overturn the 2020 election. As I reported for Business Insider back in then, Trump Administration employees became radioactive after the violent attacks on the Hill, many had problems getting job interviews. Some have found work after renouncing Trump. His former aide, Alyssa Farah Griffin, joined The View and CNN. 

“It’s hard to overstate the way things have changed in the last several years since January 6,” one former NBC News executive told me this week. “You could still have political differences and be an acceptable pundit, but the attempted overthrow of a legitimate election created some new rules.”