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The Contrarian’s Calling

Frustrated by the legacy press' coverage of Donald Trump, Jennifer Rubin and Norman Eisen have decided to take matters into their own hands.

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Oliver Darcy
January 13, 2025

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On Sunday evening, Jennifer Rubin, a longtime columnist at The Washington Post, dialed up David Shipley, the newspaper's opinion editor. Rubin had phoned Shipley to share a considerable piece of news: After more than a decade at The Post, she no longer believed she could continue working at the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper in good conscience.

The editorial differences Rubin harbored with management had simply grown too deep. The final straw had been Shipley's spiking of a cartoon critical of Bezos, but there had been plenty of other decisions The Post's brass had made over the last several months that irked her too. And so, Rubin decided it was time to get out. When she spoke with Shipley, she told him as much.

While Rubin had been weighing her options over the last few weeks, she had also been chatting with her good friend Norman Eisen, a legal analyst and the former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic. Eisen's contract with CNN was expiring in February and he had similarly grown vexed by…

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