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Ed Bigham's avatar

Thank you Eric for your hard work--as always.

I don't know if I can improve on db's explanation submitted here. I also agree with your response. In addition to the many mental health professionals warning us about trump's dangerous MH issues, many current and former WH officials have told us the same thing about him--he is dangerous. Let's not forget the state department and justice department heroes who testified to widespread criminality that failed to result in removal. The information is out there, and I imagine those that work with trump know it better than most.

I suggest the problem is not just with the press. The failure to act, including as you note report regularly on his instability, is widespread. Begin with the complicit enablers formerly known as the republican party, and end with the dishonest lawyers making entirely specious arguments on his behalf. Of equal importance the last 3+ years subjected us to children in cages, Nazis, American soldier bounties, and Covid victims loaded in refrigerated trucks. The consequences of the country's 2016 mistake are completely out of proportion. And exhausting.

Mary Trump's book lands at a time when we are all trying to avoid contracting a deadly virus while figuring out what we will do if we see an July-August Covid spike resulting in schools remaining closed. The book requires widespread coverage. Will MSM do that? I am doubtful.

Which brings me back to Press Run, independent journalism, and our responsibility to promote and support what is needed.

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RUArmyNavyMominTX's avatar

While I appreciate your call to arms, the media is way too late. These same psychopathies have been evident from when Trump walked down the escalator, from when he said he preferred "war heroes who haven't been captured," from when he excoriated the Khan family, from his ET "grab 'em by the pussy" comment ad infinitum. The press has failed the country and similar to the Republican party, it will be impossible to restore its credibility.

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