WSJ's Peggy Noonan shares recent encounter with Trump after avoiding him for 8 years: 'He was hilarious'
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Veteran columnist Peggy Noonan revealed why she avoided meeting President-elect Donald Trump and what happened during their recent encounter at a Wall Street Journal editorial meeting.
"And the reason was, I had a feeling that up close he would be charming and funny, and that there would be something endearing, and that it would mess with my swing as an observer," she explained. "I didn't want to see him up close. I didn't want to see him far away. I wanted- had this intuitive sense [to] see him at a middle distance. And I felt I saw him clearly at a middle distance." Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.
Noonan, a vocal Trump critic, acknowledged the war of words she and the former president have had over the years and the attacks she received through tweets and at his rallies, telling Weiss, "I'll look back on it kind of warmly, in a weird way."