It’s a sad thing to live in a country where the First Amendment reigned supreme for most of our living memory but now lies in tatters. A lot of people are alive who well remember Watergate. That was a story that was not picked up by a lot of the mainstream press at the time. It seemed too vague or too fantastic. But the Washington Post ran with it and ended up toppling one of the most corrupt presidencies in this nation’s history in doing so. Where are the Woodwards and Bernsteins of today? The Ben Bradlees? I’ll tell you where. One of the current reporters who is of that ilk is Terry Moran who got fired from ABC News a few weeks ago for a social media post critical of Trump and Stephen Miller. Not even a story, just a tweet. Another one of that ilk is Jim Acosta, who resigned from CNN and now does podcasts out of his house, when CNN wanted to put him on the graveyard shift to appease Trump.
This is how fascist cultures work. They get rid of the journalists and the fiction writers of the day who tell the truth. Look at the history of Russia for a tutorial on how that works. And look this weekend to Trump’s Iowa rally and how he utterly botched up both the history and the current job of his own Secretary of the Interior. And this is a couple of days after he misstated that the “Civil War ended in 1869 — whatever.” Yet Biden got excoriated for gaffes one fraction as odd as this. Hit this link to see a video that will put you on the floor.
Donald Trump, according to Republicans, appeared not to know what was in the legislation that he was urging them to pass, which contained his entire agenda. All presidents have verbal slip-ups while living years of their life under the bright lights of the world’s biggest stage, but something different is going on with Trump.
As he ages, there are more and more public signs that things are not right.
https://politizoom.com/yet-another-trump-dementia-episode-not-covered-by-the-press/