Got nothing

The media’s latest Trump scandal du jour is the firestorm of his alleged remark about “s--hole countries.” On Monday CNN repeated the word 195 times during their broadcast according to the Media Research Center and it has paralyzed all the media and entertainment industry for over a week. The media isn’t even curious about the breaking scandals in the FBI and Justice Department but if Trump allegedly used a curse word, it is the end of the world as we know it.

When Mitt Romney made his 47 percent gaffe when running for president, there was video to prove it. When Hillary Clinton made her remark about deplorables, there was video to prove it. But there is no video of President Trump’s remarks. Only the words of Democratic Senator Dick Durbin which have been contradicted by other people in the same room and in the same meeting.

Dick Durbin is not only an irrational Trumphater, he’s also a lying hypocrite. He once lied about a different White House meeting a few years ago that even the Obama administration had to correct.

Durbin whined about the term “chain migration” as being racist and yet we DO have video of him using the exact same phrase. Durbin is the same sleazy politician who once lumped members of the American military charged with guarding terrorists at Gitmo with Nazis and Communists.

Despite Durbin’s lying history and overwhelming political bias, the media treated his version of the story as solid gold without any questions whatsoever because it helped advance their political narrative. With the Russian fantasy vaporizing, Trump’s doctor giving him a clean bill of health, and the Wolff book fully discredited, liberals are now consumed with charges of racism.

With no new ideas, no solutions, and no vision, this is how liberals think they will win the hearts of American voters.

Gil Mertz Former Agua Dulce

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