@coldjoint,
coldjoint, with all due respect, I'd argue that it would be foolish to call Trump a successful businessman since he simply subsists on his friends' dosh, say, Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, who has bailed the billionaire out twice. Writing in one issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, a journalist describes how some well-to-do Asian businessmen came to rescue when Trump was facing financial hardship: weighed down by bad debt, Trump had no choice but to sell some parts of his company, lest his company went under again. In effect, "no major U.S. company has filed for Chapter 11 more than Trump's casino empire in the last 30 years," according to the business section of CNN.
https://money.cnn.com/2015/08/31/news/companies/donald-trump-bankruptcy/index.html.
His failure to shake up his casino businesses has been reported by Fox News as well.
https://www.foxnews.com/story/trump-casinos-to-file-for-bankruptcy-in-restructuring-move
Fortune's Shawn Tully also wrote another article arguing that some contractors had been fleeced or stiffed by Trump.
https://fortune.com/2016/10/08/donald-trump-taxes-contractors/amp/
The WSJ has been one of the fervent supporters of Trump, along with Fox News , Breitbart , or 4chan, which is a place where incels and meme-making trolls vent their spleen on both liberals and feminists with gusto as part of the alt-right movement. Some bellicose supremacists also use it to incite hatred against non-whites with fascist overtones, just like some Muslim nutters who inveigh against the American-led global order while preaching the virtues of Islam thinking.
I take exception to your view that Max Boot hates Trump. Max Boot is just another feisty and outspoken journalist preoccupied with the idea of seeking truth and rectifying injustices or official wrongs through his articles, just like his predecessors Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
Lots of scandals related to grandees and socialites have been unearthed, thanks to their strenuous efforts to dig the dirt on them. If hadn't been for them, some leaders wouldn't have given voice to the needy. If hadn't been for gusty journalists like Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker and his colleagues, more women would have been sexually harassed by high-wattage people like Harvey Weinstein without having a chance to sue them.
Regardless, I think we should respect journalists like Max Boot instead of looking askance at their attempts to limit the powers of the president and help little guys seek redress from the government once the government tries to encroach on their civil liberties and financial interests.
Trump would do well to realize that press freedom is part of democracy.