Julia Ioffe writes at Politico. She’s been having a hard time since the election ended, and her Twitter account is basically wall-to-wall unhinged Trump Russia coverage.
Today, it jumped the shark. Here’s her response to the news that Ivanka Trump will have an office in the White House:
Either Trump is fucking his daughter or he’s shirking nepotism laws. Which is worse? https://t.co/0Fo8vDKcDC
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) December 14, 2016
We’re going to assume that Ioffe wasn’t drunk when she wrote this tweet, and that’s sort of terrifying. A member of the mainstream media with a serious journalism pedigree could be driven to make such an absolutely insane statement by a conflict of interest story. That she did it in public as a representative of a private company suggests she’s not long for her job.
In other news, it looks like they may be hiring at Politico. Get well soon, Julia.