Responses to “Why hasn’t former President Donald Trump spent one day in jail or in a prison cell?”

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   acflory

   Oct 8, 2024

   I know why Fox news isn’t saying anything about all the losses, but what about the rest of the mainstream media?? I admit I don’t see much American news, unless something hits my eye on Youtube, but…usually what I do see is sensationalist stuff about what Trump /says/ instead of what he, and others like him, have done. This baffles me. Is Bad Trump so newsworthy that all the media want a piece of the action??

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      Lloyd Lofthouse

      Oct 8, 2024

      The media reaction in the United States is mixed and somewhat baffling. Traitor Trump’s media allies like FOX fake NEWS continue to support him most of the time with propaganda, mostly ignoring the fact that he is a traitor who lies all the time, is a convicted rapist, fraud and felon. They also attack Harris and Walz often cherry-picking facts to make them look bad when they aren’t.

      Some sites report what the traitor says and does almost daily, revealing how horrible and dangerous he is. They also report what Harris and Walz say and do it in a way that makes them look like losers or heroes.

      Other news sites ignore Traitor Trump’s depravity and lies and report what he says like it’s all normal behavior. But don’t do the same for Harris and Watz.

      Then there are the news sites that do both. Their news might normalize the traitor, while opinion pieces crucify him. The reverse also happens. Opinions normalize him while the news crucified him.

      From what I’ve heard and read, 99% of the voters have already made up their minds. The 1% that hasn’t must be hugely confused. I think most of the U.S. media is having a psychotic breakdown. That 1% might be between 1.7 and 2 million voters.

      I think some media sites go out of their way not to upset the traitor out of fear of death threats, while not supporting him.

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      1. 

         acflory

         Oct 8, 2024

         So much for the 4th Estate holding the powerful to account. Then again, if the Nixon scandal happened today, it might not cause much of a stir either. 😦
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         Lloyd Lofthouse

         Oct 9, 2024

         There may have been a few in the Republican Party that obsessively dedicated their lives to getting even with the Democrats for what happened to Nixon. I do not think it is a coincidence that Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, were a targeted like they were. And Hillary is still a target. As a young Democrat and a lawyer, she was involved in Nixon’s impeachment investigation. Younger Republicans grew up in that toxic stew of Hillary Clinton hatred and probably don’t know how far back it goes.

         https://www.c-span.org/video/?466696-1/hillary-clinton-nixon-impeachment-inquiry

         The Dark Depths of Hatred for Hillary Clinton

         https://www.vox.com/2020/1/30/21113476/donald-trump-impeachment-richard-nixon-watergate

         https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36992955

         Donald Trump is Richard Nixon’s revenge
         How the Trump administration is unraveling the good-government reforms of the post-Watergate era.

         https://www.vox.com/2020/1/30/21113476/donald-trump-impeachment-richard-nixon-watergate

         How the news media has changed is also part of the problem.

         “By 1900, major newspapers had become profitable powerhouses of advocacy, muckraking and sensationalism, along with serious, and objective news-gathering. In the 1920s, technological change again changed American journalism as radio began to play a new role, followed by television in the 1950s and internet in the 1990s.

         “In the late 20th century, much of American journalism merged into big media conglomerates (principally owned by media moguls like Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch). With the coming of digital journalism in the 21st Century, newspapers faced a business crisis as readers turned to social media for news and advertisers followed them to services such as Facebook.”
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         acflory

         Oct 9, 2024

         Wow…I had no idea Hilary Clinton was involved in any of that. The first I, and probably most non-Americans, heard of her was as the First Lady. That explains so much that I could never understand.
         As for the news media, it seems to have gone the way of most other businesses in this neo-liberal era: monopolies and lack of competition.
         It’s a grim picture, especially given the hope we all had for the democratising potential of the internet.

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