Attacking the Press

Any politician that attacks the media is afraid of what the media can uncover. That politician is doing something embarrassing, unethical, or illegal that they do not want you to know about. You should vote for the other candidate immediately. Calling the press “the enemy of the people” is a tried and true technique from the dictator’s handbook, a tactic used by Hitler, Stalin, Sadaam, etc. This is not metaphorical or hyperbolic. Trump is AFRAID of what the press has uncovered, what the press will uncover and that the American people will understand just how corrupt he, his family and his administration are. 

There are few things as American as a free press and this is yet another American value the Trump/Republicans have degraded. 

H/T to /u/jaydawg69

This week the White House has gone to great lengths to help the Saudi’s cover up the murder of a journalist. The journalist was an American resident and worked for this country. Interestingly, he wasn’t put on a Saudi blacklist until AFTER HE CRITICIZED President Trump. Meanwhile, Saudi money flows into the US to pay for our obliviousness. A question that has not been asked about previous presidents must now be asked - how much of that money is going directly into the Trump family?

And still, the President encourages and celebrates violence against the media. Trump praised the Congressman that pled GUILTY TO ASSAULT on a journalist last year. Where’s the decency, the civility, the respect?  It doesn’t exist. Trump and his supporters don’t actually appear to support anything America actually stands for.