And that's the point I was trying to make: none of this had anything to do with Trump himself. For The Hill to publish this story reeks of journalistic malpractice, and it's far from the first time.
On one hand I'm pretty sure that the hotel in WashDC is owned by a Trump corporation. That hotel is the focus of the bogus emoluments lawsuits, and the lawsuits could be quickly dismissed by Trump being able to show he had no ownership interest in that hotel.
On the other hand, the partisanship a journalistic deception is in the headline. The headline suggests that Trump's hotel raised its rates out of political spite; reality is that DC area hotels generally raised their rates, as they do every four years for that time frame in January.
Some journalists lie with false information. Some journalists lie by withholding information. Some journalists lie by withholding context. Some journalists lie by burying information deeper in an article than most of their readers read.
The Hill used three of those four tactics.
Behind their polished white-washed facade most MSM journalists are raving lunatics like Keithie (Olbermann).
