problematic authoritarian tendencies throughout the society. now, that warning was followed by the announcement of that year s pulitzer prize for national reporting which went to the new york times or and the washington post, for quote relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest on russian interference in the 2016 election,ru and its connectionso the trump campaign, the president-elect transition team, and his eventual administration. now that choice naturally drew the ire of then president donald trump, who did not stop complaining about the decision, even after he left the white house. it actually led the pulitzer board to open two separate independent investigations into the awarding of those prizes. and this week, the pulitzer board has announced the results of those investigations, and here is part of what they said. no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that subsequent to the con fe
discredited by facts that subsequent to the con feral of the prizes. the 2018 pulitzer prize in national reporting stands. the pulitzer board stands behind the succession of thoroughly reported stories detailing russia s interference in the 2016 campaign. trump and his campaign s links to russia, trump s efforts to obstruct investigations into both. and this was the headline on one of those award-winning pieces of reporting. it s from the new york times dated in april of 2017, quote, comey tried to shield the fbi from politics. then he shaped an election. fbi director jim comey broke with longstanding justice department tradition back in 2016 when he twice, not once, but twice, publicly announced an investigation into hillary clinton s emails. d.o.j. policy that comey broke with was the justice department s rules around what s called election sensitivities.