On Monday, Donald Trump once again decided to blame the media for the fact that he’s an incompetent dolt who lies about everything, telling soldiers at a military luncheon he attended that the news media doesn’t cover acts of terrorism when they happen, adding:
“They have their reasons, and you understand that.”
Trump’s assertion is invalid on its face. Terrorism is always guaranteed to lead the news. Yet again we see the alleged head of state attempting to divert attention from the fact that his Muslim ban has been indefinitely delayed in court and his administration is in complete disarray, with President Steve Bannon calling the shots around the White House.
On his show Monday evening, Anderson Cooper easily refuted Trump’s lies by showing numerous clips of him reporting on acts of terror around the world. Cooper noted:
“Not only did we cover many of the attacks on that list, we covered them heavily. I know, because I was on the ground reporting a number of them. CNN was on the ground in Ottawa, Canada, when a gunman killed someone at the tomb of the unknown soldier. I was in Orlando, I flew there right after the news broke. December 2015, that was on the list, San Bernardino. I was there, 14 people killed and 21 wounded in coordinated attacks. This was a month after I reported on the carnage in Paris, where terrorists killed 130 people and wounded many others. To be sure, this program did not cover each and every incident on the list, however other programs, as well as CNN International, covered most if not all of them, most of them exhaustively.”
Why, exactly, does Trump want to shift our focus to terror attacks? One of Cooper’s guests, Democratic strategist Maria Cardona speculated:
“I think he wants to blame the media or blame the judge to have everybody talking about terrorism so that there is a reason that the judiciary will give him standing to pass what he wants to pass.”
Trump is like a child: If he doesn’t get his way, he pouts. And it was established a long time ago that he is a pathological liar. Quite simply put, Donald Trump may well be the greatest threat this republic has ever faced.
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