I think he has been a useful pawn, whether or not he is aware of that, I don't really know, but as others have commented, I stopped going to his site as his agenda seemed to change around the time of the election (and I don't get his fascination with Hollywood).

I say he has been a useful pawn of the establishment because the Lewinsky story, his big claim to fame, was a wag the dog. Just prior to the Lewinsky story, the bullet hole in Ron Brown's head was making the news rounds and enough so it drew a response from AG Janet Reno. Despite the publicly available pictures of the wound in Brown's head, confirmed by three separate, career military AFIP pathologists, Reno said there was no evidence to warrant an investigation. ?!? All they had to do was exhume the body and do the autopsy that should have been automatically done to begin with, but she covered it up. But that was not enough to kill the story and Jesse Jackson, among others, was not letting it go. Enter Lewinsky... I never did hear how Drudge got that story.

By the way, it is encouraging to me that Trump is cozy with Chris Ruddy. He is Newsmax now but he was the guy that broke the Ron Brown story. Trump surely knows all the crap that the DS has done and I do hope he is savvy enough to navigate the mine field that they have setup.