Mind you, this is not in the opinion section, but called “news analysis” in the politics section
Same paper that demands a persons private tax records is upset that governmental records are declassified. Remember when they said that the people have a right to know? You'd think a news outlet would be interested in govt malfeasance and investigate https://t.co/Sx2YlTgUqx
— William Teach2 ??????? #refuseresist (@WTeach2) October 11, 2020
From the link
President Trump’s order to his secretary of state to declassify thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails, along with his insistence that his attorney general issue indictments against Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr., takes his presidency into new territory — until now, occupied by leaders with names like Putin, Xi and Erdogan.
Mr. Trump has long demanded — quite publicly, often on Twitter — that his most senior cabinet members use the power of their office to pursue political enemies. But his appeals this week, as he trailed badly in the polls and was desperate to turn the national conversation away from the coronavirus, were so blatant that one had to look to authoritarian nations to make comparisons.
He took a step even Richard M. Nixon avoided in his most desperate days: openly ordering direct, immediate government action against specific opponents, timed to serve his re-election campaign. (snip)
Now he is talking about it, almost daily. He is making it clear that prosecutions, like vaccines for the coronavirus, are useless to him if they come after Nov. 3. He has declared, without evidence, that there is already plenty of proof that Mr. Obama, Mr. Biden and Mrs. Clinton, among others, were fueling the charges that his campaign had links to Russia — what he calls “the Russia hoax.†And he has pressured his secretary of state to agree to release more of Mrs. Clinton’s emails before the election, reprising a yearslong fixation despite having defeated her four years ago.
But, see, there is plenty of actual evidence that it was a hoax, that it was started by the Hillary campaign, and that Obama-Biden and Russia knew about it. And, see, there was a time when a news outlet would smell blood in the water when it came to declassifying government documents that show malfeasance, even criminal activity, and they would swarm and attack.
Now? They defend those of their own party. Any shred of integrity and neutrality is gone like a fart in the wind. There was no Russian collusion by the Trump campaign or Trump. It was made up. That’s why nuts like Adam Schiff could never show their “rock solid evidence.” That’s why Mueller never found anything.
Seriously, what if I told you a president
- targeted political rivals using the IRS and DOJ
- got the DOJ to back off investigating political allies
- blew off the law to give essentially amnesty to millions of illegals
- instituted a reg that gave feds even more power over energy sector
- instituted a reg that gave feds control over all waterways in US, including ponds in your backyard
- signed a document pledging US money for ‘climate change’ which avoided the legislative body
- Made a deal with Iran that avoided the duly elected legislative body
- dictated how schools must allow boys claiming to be girls in the girls locker rooms and showers or they’d lose federal money
- signed a law giving feds more power over your health insurance and care
- same law gave feds more power over student loans
- instituted a contraceptive and abortifacient mandate, despite appearing nowhere in the Affordable Care Act
- refused to defend duly passed laws by Congress and signed by previous presidents
- Continuously took more power for the feds and away from the states and municipalities
- ruled by his pen
- instituted rules and regs willy nilly
- used the national press as his personal Pravda
- and more
That’s the guy people say is freedom loving, while the guy who did away with that stuff, is trying to expose gov’t abuse, and get rid of burdensome gov regs is called an authoritarian/dictator. And these same media folks did all they could to defend the Big Government actions of Obama-Biden and protect them.
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