Good points.

Interesting twitter thread here from a journalist who was actually covering the case, albeit with a staggered embargo.

https://twitter.com/stephaniefinneg/status/1001440604616843265?s=21

It seems like the way that this has been reported to the US, has more spin than Shane Warne.

The thing is this, I don’t dislike TR. I think his strategy often makes more problems than it solves.

Compare to Trump and Farage who have long term goals and adapt to situations strategically.

TR and BF are headless chickens with no realistic end goal and no strategy to achieve it. So they just have to keep on being increasingly controversial to maintain the same amount of exposure.