Here’s the irony of the political chaos we are now seeing: If the media had done its job before the election, none of this would be happening.

This is what I mean. It was clear to me that Hillary Clinton wasn’t going to win the election, and I did my best to explain all the problems she would have with voters.

The information I wrote about was based on nearly 20 years of my investigating the Clintons, including numerous documents that came from the investigation of Ken Starr.

By the time of the 2016 election, all of this information was known to every journalist in the world, even those who weren’t in the business back then.

But the press wasn’t interested in digging deeply into Clinton. Many mainstream journalists were even reluctant to cover the FBI investigation of her behavior as secretary of state on any more than a cursory level.

The vast majority of the media wanted Clinton to be president. And the media didn’t want to interfere. So the Democrats picked her.

If the press had done its job and investigated her fully, she would not have been picked by the Democrats. Instead, they would have picked someone else.

And that someone else — almost anyone else — would have beaten Donald Trump on Election Day. And the press wouldn’t be having the fit it is currently having.

A free press works wonderfully, but only when it’s always on the job.