Why Isn't the New York Observer Covering Trump?

Donald Trump’s clunky, absurd and arguably racist birther claims and attention-begging presidential run is the sort of story that the New York Observer is known to cover with relish. But, as John Cook at Gawker and Ben Smith at Politico began tweeting earlier this week, the paper has been silent on the subject.

Maybe this has something to do with the small fact that the Observer is currently owned by Jared Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka.

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