The Main Stream Media Reporters who Donald Trump Calls Disgusting

[Tom Rinaldo]

These are the same individuals who collectively withheld all reporting on the "dossier" of how the Russians allegedly compromised Trump in Moscow, simply because they were unable to independently confirm the allegations made in it. This despite the fact that the person who compiled that dosser was and remains a highly credible source; a former British head of Intelligence for their Moscow unit. The story was widely known by most if not all major media organizations dating back to the summer, and yet not a hint of it leaked out prior to quite recently after American Intelligence agencies felt a need to themselves brief our political leaders on it.

I am not criticizing our media for withholding coverage of a story that would potentially have dominated the news for weeks prior to the election. Actually I applaud them for acting responsibly in light of the power that media always has to strongly influence events, including Presidential Elections. They should be cautious about publicly reporting potentially explosive allegations while they are doing their best to confirm details about them. But I can't help but think about how Donald Trump did his very best to sleaze them all, often by name, during his campaign for President while they all were acting so responsibly and not breaking a story that they knew would garner massive attention during the most competitive six month long domestic news cycle this country ever routinely experiences.

For some of these reporters their literal physical safety was put in question by the viscous negative personal focus that Donald Trump placed them under to his most rabid followers. Throughout it all they remained true to the ethics of their calling and suppressed unproven reports that could have severely damaged Trump's chances to become President. And in return the now President of the United States calls these dedicated men and women “the most dishonest human beings on earth”.

I haven't seen any other reflections written about what Trump put those reporters through in his campaign while all along those members of the so called liberal elite media were refusing to run with a story damaging to Trump because they could not prove it to be true. It continues to boggle my mind what a crude asshole Donald Trump is.

[Tom Rinaldo]

1. I admit to some personal ambivalence about praising the press about election coverage

A number of them, primarily in the print media during the second half of the campaign, were excellent. But electronic media largely were enablers of Trump with their wall to wall non stop coverage of every-time he burped, while they stampeded to cover anything negative about Clinton that they got their hands on. Still I have to give them credit when they strive to verify the stories that they report on. That is the opposite of the fake news bubble that the Trump empire floats on. It is how media should act, and in this case Trump benefited from their responsible caution. And he of course is the one who has made it his mission to destroy them both collectively and individually.