A few weeks ago, a handful of D.C. luminaries gathered at the Woodley Park home of socialite Eden Rafshoon for a birthday dinner honoring Gahl Burt, the widow of the late, legendary ambassador to Israel, Martin Indyk. By all accounts, it was a lovely evening, but at some point, over the fish and rice, the subject of Donald Trump came up, and the conversation predictably went off the rails. According to three guests who didn’t want to go on the record and violate their host’s privacy, Barak Ravid, Axios’s star reporter, had shared that Trump was a great source, one that he has treated as any other. Taken aback, a well-known D.C. intellectual suggested that perhaps that wasn’t the best metric with which to evaluate the 47th president of the United States—even for a journalist.