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Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin used to be a darling of the right, using her media platform to advocate for the Republican Party’s last presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. But for many backers of President-elect Donald Trump, she is no better than a traitor.

“Jen Rubin is WAPO’s excuse for conservative; her contempt for all things Trump exposes her and WAPO as Fake News,” former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee posted on Twitter last week, after Rubin criticized the president-elect’s Cabinet nominees.

Rubin has scrapped with other members of the right-wing media, including Fox hosts Tucker Carlson and Bill O’Reilly. “You actually are in the spin zone,” she told O’Reilly in October, according to a report on CNN. “It’s presented as a news program or a pseudo-news program and instead it’s a lot of parroting of what Trump says to you.”

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Rubin was criticized four years ago by The Washington Post’s public editor, who fretted publicly over how supportive she was of Romney, to the point that he thought she wanted a job in a Romney administration.

Contact Daniel J. Solomon at solomon@forward.com or follow him on Twitter, @DanielJSolomon

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