The former president's effort to exist in a truth-indifferent bubble has paid off.

Speaking to CBS News's Lesley Stahl during his first presidential bid, Donald Trump made an unsurprising admission.

Stahl had asked Trump why he continued to disparage journalists and the news media, describing them as an enemy of the American people. Trump's explanation wasn't that the media had earned that disparagement or to concede some exaggeration. Instead, he admitted that it was tactical.