WSJ and New York Post turn on trump
Former President Donald Trump’s lost support from both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. An editorial by each paper on Saturday called trump unfit(?) to hold office again (?). The New York Post delivered a “crushing” blow to trump’s hopes to run for re-election again in 2024.
Over the weekend, both of the Rupert Murdoch-owned papers came down hard on the former president. after the most recent House Select Committee hearing provided irrefutable evidence that Trump sat by for over three hours and did nothing while the Capitol was under siege by his supporters.
“As his followers stormed the Capitol, calling for his vice president to be hanged, President Donald Trump sat in his private dining room, watching TV, doing nothing.
“For three hours, seven minutes.”
January 6th to July 25th? And the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal finally wake up to what happened?
The Wall Street Journal editorial board; “Character is revealed in a crisis, and Mr. Pence passed his Jan. 6 trial. Mr. Trump utterly failed his.”
Everyone believes Mike Pence is some type of hero because he officiated at the Electoral College vote count and did what he was supposed to do. The issue here is “what did he know and when did he know it?” Mike knew well before hand he was supposed to upend the Electoral College Vote. The attack was still going to happen if Pence did so. The objective was to stop the process and secure the ballots. Pence knew this was going to happen and he said nothing. The same goes for the other collaborators.
Pence is no hero. He was complicit.
Can Fox News be far behind?
Jim:
They should have been first.
The Republicans might turn on Trump because he himself is a liability in a lot of circles, but they have no problem with his program including the idea of coup to seize power. They just want deniability. A coup? Who, us?
Kalesberg
The newspapers and shows knew what occurred on January 6th going forward. And now they condemn him. Brave souls are they? There was no deniability of this not being an attempted coup. They all stood back and waited to see what would happen. This is not an if either. They would have been backing trump if he succeeded.
They were complicit then and afterwards.
There were more than just Pence in Congress who knew of trump’s plan to usurp the election results. Silence and not a word.
Pence was complicit. Just another Reverend Henry Kane.
Hawley is a joke! Couldn’t hotfooted it out of the way quick enough.
Complicit and a coward.
Edited when I was awake.
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NY Times – July 26
None of his voters read either paper.
Why Rupert Murdoch Is Finally Done with Donald Trump
Politico – July 25
The worm has turned.