NYT Scribe Hits Pro-Trump Opinion Writers With Vicious Slam

If you are wondering why there is not a single opinion columnist at The New York Times who is a supporter of President Donald Trump, NYT opinion writer Michelle Goldberg has an answer for you.

Goldberg, during an event at Harvard University on Oct. 16, said it is difficult to find writers who are “pro-Trump, honest, and not racist.”

She added: “There’s not that many people in the middle of that Venn Diagram.”

Goldberg’s comment was reported by Ira Stoll in his Substack, The Editors. Stoll, who is also a columnist for The New York Sun, reported the event, dubbed “Authoritarianism, Antisemitism, and the Future of America,” did not allow photos or videos to be taken.

The event was hosted at Harvard’s Center for Jewish Studies and attracted about 30 people, according to Stoll, and had one armed police officer guarding it.

Goldberg’s comment draws attention to the NYT opinion section, which has several self-identified conservatives — but no Trump supporters, as she noted.

Out of those four conservative writers — David Brooks, Ross Douthat, Bret Stephens, and David French — none of them have said they voted for Trump.

And many of them have been highly critical of Trump, including Stephens, who wrote a column last year, “A Conservative Case Against Trump,” outlining why he loathed Trump and would be voting for then-Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

“Trump is worse in ways that matter profoundly to the rule of law, the health of capitalism and the future of freedom at home and abroad,” Stephens wrote.

Brooks, meanwhile, has slammed Trump as a “tyrant” who has “corroded the Republican Party.” And Trump ripped Douthat in 2022 for a story where he said Trump’s hold over the Republican Party was “weakening.”

The New York Times has 11.88 million subscribers and, according to Goldberg, is still searching for a non-racist MAGA writer to give its readers a different slant than the rest of its opinion section.