She's asking an obvious question about a gigantic elephant in the room in the history of American politics that almost the entirety of the media has been studiously ignoring.
It's not that she's somehow helping the president with a setup question, it's that everyone else isn't asking it. It's that everyone else will torture the very core of logic to frame nonsensical questions designed to attack the president based on nothing of substance, instead of being journalists.
So it is this stark contrast that gives the appearance of a "softball", not the question itself nor the reason for asking it.
Any journalist with an ounce of curiosity or integrity should be asking it.
She's asking an obvious question about a gigantic elephant in the room in the history of American politics that almost the entirety of the media has been studiously ignoring.
It's not that she's somehow helping the president with a setup question, it's that everyone else isn't asking it. It's that everyone else will torture the very core of logic to frame nonsensical questions designed to attack the president based on nothing of substance, instead of being journalists.
So it is this stark contrast that gives the appearance of a "softball", not the question itself nor the reason for asking it.
Any journalist with an ounce of curiosity or integrity should be asking it.
Best answer. Good chance you're right, it's just the contrast that makes it seem that way.