Gregg Birnbaum took a sip of his beer and shrugged when I asked him about U.S. President Donald Trump and his apparent enmity towards Canada.

“I wish I had the answers,” Birnbaum said.

Birnbaum was, for years, the astute political editor of the New York Post — a devout centrist overseeing the political coverage of a conservative newspaper in a very liberal city.

That takes talent and open-mindedness, rare in today’s media landscape, which makes Birnbaum an ideal subject for interrogation on the machinations of the orange man in the White House.

[ Former New York Post colleagues Gregg Birnbaum, left, and Toronto Sun columnist Brad Hunter. Birnbaum was the Post’s longtime political editor. He unpacks Trump. BRAD HUNTER/ TORONTO SUN] Former New York Post colleagues Gregg Birnbaum

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