There’s a little-remembered scandal from the Obama administration that I would like to bring to the attention of readers. I hope you’re sitting down, because it is truly shocking, and the fact that nobody talks about it today shows how biased journalists are.
During Obama’s second term, Attorney General Loretta Lynch was overseeing the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. In June 2016, she and Bill Clinton happened to be at the Phoenix airport at the same time. The former president approached Lynch’s plane and boarded for what both said was a brief, impromptu conversation. They later described it as a personal chat about grandchildren and golf. A DOJ Inspector General report found that there was no evidence of interference with the criminal case. Nonetheless, FBI Director James Comey later wrote that the outcry over the meeting was one of the factors that contributed to him deciding to bypass DOJ leadership and independently announce the FBI’s findings of the Clinton email scandal, which he did days later.
Got that? The FBI was looking into Hillary Clinton. Her husband briefly spoke to the attorney general. No wonder people voted for Trump! Such corruption at the highest levels of government! You don’t hate the media enough!
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To be very honest, I suspect we wouldn't like each other. I don't trust you, and I don't agree with MANY of your takes. But it's time to get past the differences we can, and give credit where due.
So, Thank you for this! It is something worth passing along to other people; as a summary of our circumstances and of Trumps malignantly narcissistic destruction. This is indeed how civilizations fall, and he is an extremely effective wrecking ball.
What frustrates me so much is that, for the reasons you've outlined above, there are lots of good reasons to dislike Trump and think he's unfit for the office of President. He's greedy, he's corrupt, he's dishonest, he's unprincipled, he has no respect for the rule of law, he's a scam artist and so on.
And yet it feels like whenever the left-leaning media criticises him, they tend to lead off by talking about his latest "racist dog-whistle", conspiratorial nonsense about how all the letters in his latest tweet add up to 1488, or absurd fantasies that he has concrete plans to transform the USA into Gilead. "Trump is racist and sexist" always comes first, and if his corruption, dishonesty and authoritarian tendencies are mentioned at all, it's as a footnote.
"But you admit that we have to criticise Trump! What does it matter what form those criticisms take?" Because when you attack Trump using baseless criticisms that have no merit, it means people will ignore you when you make criticisms that actually do have merit. The Boy who Cried Wolf is a classic fable for a reason.