“These reporters are cherry-picking shreds of gossip at greatest… and making shit up at worst. Some have overtly loathed Biden for years, & are salivating on the probability to torch his group,” former speechwriter to President Joe Biden Dan Cluchey wrote, laying out his personal expertise with the president that belies the post-debate beltway narrative.
Cluchey wrote:
For no matter it’s value — most likely nothing — I spent a good period of time in shut proximity to Pres. Biden earlier than leaving the White Home within the fall of ‘22. That included dozens of journeys, early AM and late evening conferences, some fairly grueling days, and many others. By no means as soon as… (1/7)
… did I see something portending a efficiency as tough as final week’s. I noticed a POTUS who was centered & sharp — w/ old-dude idiosyncrasies, positive, however definitively with it. No moments that involved me. You don’t need to consider me, but when it helps: I swear my life on it. (2/7)
Granted, I don’t know him practically in addition to numerous others, and I’m 20-odd months faraway from the job. However my firsthand expertise was greater than sufficient to make me (a) extraordinarily shocked by the controversy and (b) assume it to be an aberration. (3/7)
What has surprised me essentially the most (not the ferocity of the press pile-on as Trump’s apparent, specific intent to destroy the nation continues to go wildly underreported — I anticipated that) has been the group of reporters who’ve giddily and obsessively used this second to… (4/7)
… slander White Home staffers as “liars,” “gaslighters,” & extra, as if the controversy was proof of some nefarious scheme to hoodwink the nation for years, and never, , a really shocking, unusually dangerous evening. These reporters are cherry-picking shreds of gossip at greatest… (5/7)
… and making shit up at worst. Some have overtly loathed Biden for years, & are salivating on the probability to torch his group. It’s ugly and unsuitable — however extra gravely, it’s an enormous failure of journalism at a second when America desperately wants them to behave like grown-ups (6/7)
… reasonably than petty, gossipy vengeance-seekers. There are respectable questions right here that POTUS should handle head-on. However we’re doomed both method if our political press can’t display the readability and capability to do *their* job, too. (7/7)
This man’s first hand expertise with President Biden is being dismissed as a result of “so much can occur in two years.” And whereas that’s true, what can be true is we’ve a President who had a nasty debate however who is true now working the nation exceptionally nicely by constitutional specialists’ requirements and anybody who’s following the transformative coverage he’s enacting. Moreover, Biden has accomplished quite a few occasions, together with this debate, during which he discusses his insurance policies with nuance and an apparent grasp of what’s occurring, whereas Donald Trump didn’t current voters with any insurance policies apart from to level fingers at Joe Biden, identify name, insult, and lie whereas at instances even taking credit score for Biden’s insurance policies. That’s the man who “gained.”
Whereas journalists have a job to tell voters and report on a nasty debate, it’s alarming that our media has determined {that a} mendacity thug gained a debate over a drained president who had simply accomplished two worldwide journeys and was making an attempt to share his precise coverage wins with the Individuals.
As an alternative, we see the media working in a pack to disregard Trump’s risk to democracy and freedom and provides the conservative-majority SCOTUS cowl for his or her stunning undermining of our founding rules. It’s odd that they aren’t calling for Trump’s medical data and cognitive assessments, and asking Republicans if Trump ought to step down now that he’s a convicted felon.
The previous man working this nation with all of his coronary heart and thoughts who had one dangerous debate is the main focus of many of the vitality, whereas the previous man who persistently forgets phrases and is not sensible at his rallies and simply canceled an interview after a rally as a result of they wouldn’t give him the questions prematurely is given a free cross.
That Trump can be a felon, adjudicated rapist and con artist and is accused of inciting a lethal revolt in an effort to maintain energy and is cooking up the most nefarious plan to remake the US right into a far-Proper conservative nation if he wins the election appears to be of little curiosity to our media.
Absolutely the media can report on BOTH presidential candidates with the identical quantity of scrutiny, whereas additionally conveying the truth that Donald Trump’s violence-inciting and felony historical past is clearly a bigger risk than Joe Biden’s dangerous debate and thus warrants extra focus.
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