I didn't see this one coming, but it could be a big win for Trump and a grotesque embarrassment for the Pulitzer Prize committee. 

Americans Poised To Get Inside Look Into How Russia Coverage Won Pulitzer Prizeshttps://t.co/B6XhCRbs6d

— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) February 4, 2025

I had forgotten that President Trump was suing the Pulitzer Prize Committee for its celebration of The Washington Post's and New York Times' coverage of the Russia collusion hoax back in 2018. 

At the time, it seemed to be a nuisance lawsuit that would amount to very little, and I still think that Trump would be unlikely to win it. But what I missed at the time was that extracting money wasn't really the point. Exposing the corruption of the media is. Trump doesn't need a few million more here or there, but in the intense war between MAGA and the Pravda Media any ammunition he can get--especially ammunition he gets to take directly from his opponents, will be a gift. 

And the chances are good that the ammunition will be a bunch of 2000 lb bombs to drop on the heads of the media. 

President Donald Trump racked up his latest legal victory in Florida on Monday, after a state judge ruled the Pulitzer Prize board's internal communications are fair game for discovery in a lawsuit Trump filed over the awards the board gave the New York Times and Washington Post in 2018 for their coverage of Russiagate.

Judge Robert L. Pegg, a circuit court judge in Okeechobee County, declined the board's request to shield its internal communications from the lawsuit's discovery phase. Trump sued the board in 2022 over its award to the Times and Post four years earlier for a series of stories that the board said "dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections" to Trump.

In his lawsuit, Trump said the board "rewarded" the newspapers "for lying to the American public" about the "now-debunked theory" that he conspired with Russia to influence the election. A series of federal investigations found no evidence that Trump colluded with the Kremlin.

Pegg rejected a motion by the board to avoid handing over internal deliberations about the award, saying the board failed to show that the discovery process will create "annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or expense," according to the ruling, first reported by Fox News

You can imagine what will be in those texts and emails. Certainly, nothing that makes the Pulitzer committee look good. Almost everything in those stories was based on a hoax that the writers undoubtedly knew was a hoax, and the entire narrative was cooked up to fool the American people into believing that Donald Trump was a Russian agent. 

Millions were misled into believing it, and many millions still do because the most prestigious of the prestigious prizes was awarded to the people who spread Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's lies. 

Post columnist Eugene Robinson chaired the Pulitzer Board when the prize was awarded to the Times and Post. Journalists and executives from the Times, NPR, Bloomberg, USA Today, and the Poynter Institute, a liberal media watchdog, served on the board. Then-Columbia University president Lee Bollinger was also on the board.

The board awarded the Pulitzer to the Times and Post for 20 news stories they published about Trump and his associates' alleged ties to Russia. One Post story touted the infamous Steele dossier, which the FBI and media outlets cited early in the Russiagate scandal as evidence that Trump conspired with Russia. Investigations have since debunked most of the dossier's most explosive claims, including that the Kremlin blackmailed Trump with a sex tape.

Sex tape. People bought that because, well, The New York Times, Washington Post, and the Pulitzer Committee all said so. 

I keep saying that our biggest enemy in the fight for the soul of the country is not the Democrats, as bad as they are, but the Pravda Media who prop them up. Democratic Party elected officials are, for the most part, people of modest talents. They chant, they tell weak lies, and their credibility is based almost entirely on the constant repetition provided by the talking heads in the media. 

Sometimes, even the Pravda Media can't make the Dems look good. 

BRUTAL: The Democrats' anti-Musk protest gets laughed off the CNN table pic.twitter.com/TJkC1oJddu

— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 5, 2025

Lame. 

Chances are very good that the Pulitzer Committee will come out looking very bad, and the Pulitzer is the best they have. It could be devastating, just as the list of projects that USAID funds makes the government look stupid. When a bureaucracy that claims to be saving starving children turns out to be funding transgender comic books and queering video games, it is hard to defend. 

Perhaps I am overoptimistic, but I expect a lot of embarrassing communications exposing how things work behind the scenes that will rip the mask off the Pravda Media. 

Another big win.