Donald Trump Lost to The Most Powerful Political Party: The Journalism Party

Perhaps it was inevitable perhaps it was fate, perhaps it was the perfect storm. Whatever the reasons, it was not meant to be for Donald Trump to have a second term in office. Prior to the pre-pandemic days, the economy was very healthy and robust, no new wars were started, unemployment figures were all at an all-time low across every demographic were just some of the accomplishments thanks to the leadership of Donald Trump. But you wouldn’t know that in these last four years with him as president. During his term, there were very few positive things written or spoken about Donald J. Trump. Why was that?

From the very moment, Donald Trump came down his escalator at Trump Tower and threw his hat in the ring for President of these United States, his campaign was already being criticized as a joke by journalist and political pundits. Many saw him as a “one and done” candidate with no prospects of reaching the prize. As the 2016 campaign rolled on and Trump emerged the victor, the idea of him becoming president was even more ludicrous to many as he was going up against the formidable Hillary “Rottweiler” Clinton. Clinton had been anointed president-elect early on in the contest. They had already measured her crown as the winner. A lot of that foregone conclusion was due in part to some old skeletons in Donald Trump’s closet that came calling. A pornstar, an old interview talking about grabbing women by the pussy, his taxes, were enough to sink any other candidate but Trump never bowed his head or had any shame that would destroy any other candidate. We all remember the fate of the Senator, Gary Hart, campaign and his subsequent demise from the 1988 Democratic presidential candidacy. The level of standards to prove an allegation was much lower during that time. The journalist didn’t need verification of a story as they claim with the Hunter Biden allegations. No, just a rumor was all that was needed to crush a person’s political ambitions.

Senator John Edwards (D) also had his scandal during his 2008 run for the presidency when it was revealed that he had fathered a child outside of his marriage. The story originated for a tabloid newspaper found in the checkout lines of the grocery stores. The National Enquirer broke the story of John Edwards’ affair but it wasn’t taken seriously because of the source, a tabloid newspaper. As the layers kept peeling back, the story had merit and the mainstream media was forced to cover it. You could feel the reluctance of reporting the story mainly because of the political leanings in journalism. John Edwards was the golden boy, the heir apparent to be president. It was too bad that he cheated on his terminally ill wife and he couldn’t keep his dick in his pants as the media elites couldn’t crown him the next best thing.

Donald Trump, on the other hand, persevered in spite of himself. On election night four years ago, he emerged as the victor to the presidency. At that moment, shock from the political pundits and journalists were beside themselves seething with rampant vitriol. Donald Trump was their rabies as they foamed at the mouth. How could he, of all people, be president? This wasn’t the playbook that was scripted. Hillary was supposed to be THE president. She was history in the making.

Instead, the knives came out for Trump on that very night. As I watched, NBC News correspondent, Richard Engle began suffering from Chicken Little syndrome. He started prognosticating that the world will burn up under Trump in the direst situations. On CBS, the same atmosphere was prevailing with the Trump victory. We were doomed and the planet would burn in hellfire for the next four years. At that moment, a new playbook was formed and that was to make Trump’s first four years in office as unpleasant as possible. Trump would quickly discover that the Journalism Party would be his worst opponent that he would ever face in politics.

To describe Trump’s relationship with the mainstream media is beyond antagonistic. What started off as small skirmishes with the media quickly grew to outright hatred towards Donald Trump. There was no coloring between the lines. The media outright hated Donald Trump. Trump’s character was that if they bite him, he was going to bite back. Calling journalism fake news didn’t swallow easily with the media. Known for attacking politicians without any push-back was a normal process for the media. They had the last word on everything. Trump, however, wasn’t going to play their game. He had a Twitter account and was using it without a filter. He called out those who would attack him. Sometimes you wished that he could have used some discipline with Twitter but as he kept using it, some of those comments started to land hard on the media.

These seasoned journalists were hitting back at Trump and him hitting back at them felt like this was a stupid middle school fight with no settlement. Some rumors about Trump and his business dealings still had not died away and then the Russia collusion hoax instituted by Hillary Clinton to derail his administration came rumbling in at a taxpayer tune of $40 million only for it to come to the conclusion that there was no Russian collusion. The media didn’t do any vetting or verification at all like they are claiming now and swallowed that dick of a story whole. They went with it as if there was some proof but as the hoax started to unravel, there were a lot of Democratic players mixing the soup of deceit with the collusion narrative. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow went with the narrative and exploited the story throughout for months and in the end, had nothing to show for it except her credibility to report honestly and without any bias.

But bias seems to be the order of the day with the journalist as they went about in reporting on the White House and Donald Trump. In her daily briefing with the White House news pool, Press Secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, had many a contentious verbal exchange for a litany of reporters. In one of several exchanges with CBS reporter, Paula Reid, Reid quoted back something President Trump had said but she had truncated the statement that gave the impression that he had implied something completely different but when McEnany asked where was the rest of the statement, Paula Reid said, “That’s all they gave me.” McEnany gave her the rest of the quote as Reid sat there with egg on her face. McEnany gave it back to the news pool with her binder full of incidents where the media failed to live up to its obligation of reporting fairness but what she also did was pissed them off and thus made her their enemy and for associating with Trump. This wasn’t the first time statements have been redacted from reporting. NBC’s Chuck Todd of Meet The Press ran an interview clip from a CBS 60 Minutes interview on Attorney General, Bill Barr. He truncated the interview that gave the impression that Bill Barr implied something totally different. Todd is supposed to be an experienced journalist but feigned ignorance as to what happened and issued an apology. But these types of errant reporting and subsequent retractions never hit the front pages or the top of the headlines. Once they are out there, the public has to digest it and suffer through the deceit as if it is the gospel. The journalism tree has born plenty of bad fruit these past four years.

It’s very obvious to many that the news outlets have been in the hunt for Trump even in sit-down interviews. Trump’s last contentious interview was with 60 Minutes with Lesley Stahl. It seems as if Trump had had enough of the sit-downs as they had become increasingly contentious because they became eventual hit pieces of things that he already had said or the meaning and intent behind what he did say. Even the questions that were being asked had a tone with it. That tone was more in an accusatory manner. His town hall meeting with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie was nothing more than an interrogation from Guthrie for the first twenty minutes. Joe Biden, over on ABC, has being lobbed the grandpa underhanded pitch at five miles per hour. It was smart on his handlers’ part to keep his campaign in the basement and avoid the looming scandal that was dogging him. Suffice it to say, the scandal wasn’t given any traction as the Journalism Party chose not to pursue it by now wanting to vet the story but they were conveniently absent for vetting during the Russian collusion hoax. Let us not forget the impeachment fiasco Nancy Pelosi instituted under the most circumspect rationale.

Now all of that evaporates with Biden in office. I think after the first year that there will be a buyer's remorse when it comes to Joe Biden. He never was hit when any hard questions and when he did, he refused to answer them and instead used Trump as the enemy that we needed to fear. He ran on the fear campaign with his three minutes press briefings. For him, social distancing was an advantage. He had enough space to escape questions from some of the press that wasn’t subscribing to the Journalism Party. Those with the hard questions were a whole team of one.

Joe Biden has inherited the moniker of questionably being duly-elected because of the voting irregularities coming from several states. Numbers in favor of Trump were bestowed to Biden. Ballots coming in after the deadline supposedly were physically stamped with a postmark of the previous day. None of the allegations are going to go away from the 70 million who voted for Trump. Biden received votes from people who were not supporting him but supporting the idea of voting Trump out of office. Herman Munster could have received the Democratic nomination and won because he wasn’t Trump. The Journalism Party ignored Biden’s gaffes and verbal stammering where it seems as if they had abdicated their duties and responsibilities as keepers of the credo to freedom of the press.

If there was any collusion going on, it has been media collusion with the Journalism Party. Twitter and Facebook conspired to squash the Hunter Biden story. None of the major networks and CNN would discuss the story and go with the narrative of the Russian disinformation smear campaign from people who never saw the documents. A lot of people have stopped listening to the news from the network of late. Many are getting their opinions from YouTube and from other voices like Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, and Tim Pool to name a few. Their political opinions have been spot on with more concise reporting than the major networks and without any bias. I personally have stopped listening to the networks as it became clear that they were being selective in their reporting. It was as if they were surgeons selectively cutting out the good things Trump had done and just reporting things that they perceived as questionable or unethical. I was listening to NPR News one day and there was a Trump story where they only mentioned half of the reporting and there I was yelling at the radio because the selectively left off the part that would have added context to the story. They have lost me as a listener. How much coverage was given to Trump on the peace initiative he performed with Saudi Arabia and Israel and others? How much coverage was given to Trump on the renegotiated NAFTA trade policy? Where was the coverage on him permanently funding historically black colleges?

The Journalism Party won this but what have you wroth in elevating Biden to the highest office in the land? Like Trump said, “Joe, you’ve been in office for 50 years. What have you done?”