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Lou's avatar

So if anyone is wondering what it's going to take for the GOP to stand up to this president, the answer is nothing. If a story, now corroborated by multiple sources, that Trump knew that Russia was paying a bounty for the killing of US soldiers doesn't rile them up, nothing will. Nothing! At the very least, the press should be hammering this story nonstop. But like the Republicans that so predictably are doing very little, the press will likely do the same, next to nothing. Treason is when one goes against his/her country during a time of war. I believe this qualifies. The checks and balances that our founders worked so hard to insure are failing miserably. Trump alone is not destroying our country. It's been a group effort. Clearly it is all of our responsibility to protect our democracy but it's failing at so many levels, especially the press. Imagine that a US president is okay with one of our greatest adversary paying thugs to kill American Troops. How is it that there are not hundreds of media outlets calling for his immediate resignation? Sad!

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One reason it has gotten less attention than it deserved is that it's the latest in and on a long list. Go back to 2016 when Mitch McConnell refused to join in a bipartisan denunciation of Russia. It was clear from the moment that became known that the republican party, not just its standard-bearer, was under Russian control. Add in money from Lev Parnas to Kevin McCarthy, and that it is clear to anyone that a certain senator from South Carolina is being extorted. This is additional evidence, but the gun has been smoking for years.

The real question is why the media--especially the elite and beltway media, and especially The New York Times--have failed to understand the existential threat to them. The First Amendment will not survive a second term. And what makes it worse is how complicit they have been, from cable news having no journalistic ability or integrity in serving as a transmitter rather than an analyst (Ted Koppel made the great point that pointing cameras at a rally and showing it isn't journalism), to The Times's libeling of Hillary Clinton (and I honestly think she would have a case).

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