I’d sat with Oppenheim, a green juice in front of me. He’d leaned in, a little more gossipy than usual, and said that women at NBC News had reported harassment by a Trump campaign official on the trail. “That’s a huge story!” I said. “We can’t tell it,” Oppenheim replied, with a shrug. “They don’t want to, anyway.” “Well, surely there’s a way to document it without violating confidences—” “It’s just not gonna happen,” he told me, as if to say, “that’s life,” with the nonchalance and confidence I so admired at the time—so much so that I didn’t give it, or his wider views on sexual harassment,
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