Dana Milbank: Journalists are playing into Trump’s hand

Washington • A question to my colleagues in the media: Why do we play President Trump’s foil?The scene in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, last Thursday night was familiar: journalists on an elevated platform in the middle of the arena, penned in, filming the proceedings and typing on their laptops while the president of the United States points at them and provokes thousands of people to boo them, jeer them, taunt them and chant ("CNN sucks!").By my count, the president attacked the press