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Opinion: New York Post editorial should concern Trump

July 25, 2022
Henry Club

The conservative-leaning daily is not some random anti-MAGA publication; Rather it gave Trump a full neck support When he ran for re-election in 2020, saying that the Joe Biden administration would be “beholden to a socialist leftist.”
The New York Post is a tabloid that reaches Trump voters where they are. news paper, 1801. Founded in By Alexander Hamilton, has a reputation of attracting the readers of the working class. In 2021, Post described himself as the sixth largest newspaper in the United States, saying that more than 80 million people read its online content each month.

One thing about the New York Post that should worry Trump is something out of his own playbook: It doesn’t hold back when it criticizes people — even someone like the former president. Who was once made a champion. The paper is known for using clear, direct language and powerful framing – and that’s exactly what it deployed in its editorial Crushing Trump. The editorial began:

“As his followers stormed the Capitol, calling for his vice president to be hanged, President Donald Trump sat in his private dining room, watching TV, doing nothing.

“For three hours, seven minutes.”

The post told the time in hours — instead of saying “187 minutes“The way lawmakers did at Thursday’s House committee hearing — to illustrate more clearly the amount of time that elapsed from the time Trump ended his speech on Jan. released a video at 4:17 Urging his supporters to go home.

To put it mildly, “three hours, seven minutes” sounds a lot longer than the 187 minutes—the most of the time in the political world and the media used to measure Trump’s passivity—and the Post gets that.

From there, the editorial turned bad for Trump. In its stern rebuke, it insisted that Trump was the only person who could stop his angry supporters, but he only made matters worse.

“To his eternal shame, as terrified allies tell him publicly to call his followers to go home, he instead fueled the flames” by tweeting that his Vice President Mike Pence in Congress Didn’t have the “courage” to block. Certification of Biden Electoral College victory.

The Post wrote that Trump’s inescapable purpose through all of this is “to find any means — damn it — to block the peaceful transfer of power.” Pointing out that the Justice Department should make a decision about potential criminal behavior, the newspaper’s editorial board concluded that “as a matter of principle, CharacterTrump has proved himself worthy to be the chief executive officer of this country again.”

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That assessment alone would be troubling for the former president who It is reported to be ready to announce plans soon To start the 2024 election bid to reclaim his old job. But shortly after, the New York Post published its piece, the editorial board of another Murdoch publication, wall street journalalso slammed Trump in an editorial titled “The President Who Stood Still on January 6th”.

The Journal wrote that, of all the reprehensible behavior Trump has presented over the past several weeks by the January 6 committee, the “most horrifying” witnesses were how “the riot erupted … to send help.”

These editorials align with the chilling story portrayed by a January 6 committee of a president as his supporters brutally beat up officials and besieged the seat of our nation’s legislature. Trump didn’t call to law enforcement or the National Guard, the committee said. He didn’t call his staff to figure out ways to stop the attack. He did not immediately release a video demanding his supporters go home – despite the happiness To many of his advisers and Washington officials that he does the same, including his White House attorney and daughter Ivanka.

No, he watched the attack on TV for hours.

Common sense tells us that if Trump was at all upset with the attacks by his supporters, he would have used his immense power as president to stop them. There is no “other side” to this story. No ambiguity. Indeed, even in his flurry of posts online after Thursday’s hearing – though He attacked various participants From the hearing — he did not hold back against the allegation that he was sitting on his hands during the attack.

One thing is quite clear at this point: People either support Donald Trump or they support the United States. There is no overlap. Even the formerly Trump-loving New York Post is telling us that the former president’s behavior that day cannot be defended.