Trump is waging an all out war on truth and reality. It is fundamental to his re-election strategy. Obamagate is a lie. Nothing more. Nothing less. When news organizations try and explicate the lie as opposed to eviscerating it they become instruments in a cynical manipulation 1
and even complicit in the lie itself. Soon, 40 percent of the country will believe Obamagate is the worst scandal in American history. All of this is happening as the most corrupt administration in American history is assaulting the rule of law, claiming unlimited executive 2.
Power at the Supreme Court , suggesting a US Presidential election may need to be postponed and incompetently and ineptly responding to one of the greatest crisis in US History. That is the story. That is reality. Pretending Trump’s lies, smears accusations and nonsense should 3
Be covered equally in the name of fairness is a desecration of the concept of journalistic ethics.
