Donald Trump seeks to make himself an absolute ruler of this nation in a form similar to Vladimir Putin in Russia. His objective is to end all opposition to his goal. The evidence is everywhere. Trump’s claim of massive voter fraud and his demand for voter information was his first step. A warrant seeking the names and personal information of those viewing the anti-Trump website Dreamhost is a perfect example of the behavior of Putin or Turkey’s president Erdogan. Trump’s threat to deny licensing for NBC is further evidence of his desire to have absolute control over the media. Erdogan like Putin now has authority to issue law, declare a state of emergency, dismiss parliament and to appoint ministers, public officials and judges. There is no limit to the number of times they can be elected to office. Trump has two dictator/ presidents to emulate. Too many Americans seem willing to surrender their freedom to an autocrat. However many of us, like the Von Trapp family in Austria, will be wise enough to depart before Trump reaches his objective.
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Trump Wants to Kill Free Press
Donald Trump just gave cable TV show “Morning Joe” a wonderful free piece of publicity. The program hit an all-time high passing more than one million viewers for the first time ever in May and beat CNN’s third-place “New Day” for the 27th straight month, the program’s best streak ever.
Trump gave the show a boost by his name calling of the hosts. He called Mika Brzezinski “low I.Q. Crazy Mika” and Joe Scarborough “Psycho Joe.” This name calling is nothing new for Trump. He had names for Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Carly Fiorina.
Today’s claim by Brzezinski and Scarborough that they have been threatened by a possible piece in the National Enquirer, that could be killed if Scarborough called an apology to Trump might be true or it could be a publicity stunt. More people are likely to be watching Morning Joe on MSNBC just to see what will happen. It is like a soap opera but is real. Great entertainment value.
While it should be beneath the president to be involved in name calling, I suspect there is a more serious intention to this entire story.
Previously CNN was accused by the White House of issuing “fake news” reports. There have been other actions by the White House to deny coverage of new events. An example is the meeting between Trump and Russian officials on May 10 where White House officials block reporters from covering the meeting. Photos were released by the Russia. Just today there was another event where video was not permitted.
The entire behavior of the White House is to block and discredit the news media. America as we have known it is under attack. Whether it is WordPress or Morning Joe the media must remain on guard. There is a man in the White House who wants to destroy our institutions.
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