It’s all just a big game

Get Trump; knock him out. It’s political boxing.

It seems one day the New York Times uses a right to hit him with his too-close Trump-Russian connections. The next day the Washington Post uses a left to pound him with reports of firing FBI Director James Comey with a White House in chaos. The national newspapers alternate days and punches with “breaking news.” It appears the phantom blows are allegations, alleged misdeeds, leaks, sources, insiders—never facts.

Interesting. These revelations tend to sprout from the Times and the Post each day at 5 p.m. (EDT). But that news is printed in the next-day editions. Or could it be, the Get Trump gang times it so advance copies are in the hands of CBS, ABC, NBC—never Fox? Now announcers for the first 10 minutes of a 30-minute nightly newscast can tell the viewers a half-hour after the Times and Post released their revelations.

From this well of Get Trump misdeeds, not-so-well-staffed newspapers, wire services, local TV stations, Internet users and Democratic Party politicians spread and enlarge the “breaking news” to the American public. Now politicians talk of eradicating the vile Trump and champion the cause for impeachment of the candidate who stole the presidency. Ouster is the object. Get Trump!

I somehow think that decades from now when historians analyze this rift in American politics, the era may well be called The Great Deception. ROBERT B. BUCHANAN North Little Rock