No President In History Has Been Treated So Badly!

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The Post & Email by Ron Ewart 1/24/2021

“As many have noted, Donald Trump’s presidency is an insurgency. Mr. Trump himself is the quintessential insurgent, doing battle with a disingenuous and entrenched establishment.” Shelby Steele, black conservative author, columnist, documentary filmmaker

“Please don’t begin to believe that the American political establishment is anything but a corrupt puppet of oligarchy.”   Alex Pareene, American writer and editor

There were 44 presidents before Donald Trump.  A few were great presidents.  Some were effective presidents and some were ineffective or corrupt presidents.  Three presidents were impeached in the U.S. House.  However, they weren’t convicted in the Senate trial because either there was no evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors, they were convicted for purely political reasons, or they couldn’t meet the two-thirds majority to convict.  Richard Nixon resigned from office before an impeachment resolution was passed in the U.S. House.  Had he not resigned, impeachment was a virtual certainty.

That the press has always had an adversarial relationship with past presidents is not in dispute.  Thomas Jefferson, our third president, had his own problems with the press.  In response he said, ”Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

Still Jefferson was frustrated and displeased by the partisan nature of the press.  He retorted that,  “Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper.  Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”  Does any of this sound familiar?  Nothing seems to change.

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Somehow, I think Mrs. Lincoln would disagree with the author's premise.