This is what is being done to President TRUMP! And some people "love" the dirt & dive right in, to add more FICTITIOUS dirt. I can't believe, how many people think, they are "better" than president TRUMP. I think THAT is oafish.
There is a difference. Sure, the Media are attacking Trump, they attack anyone who isn't a leftist, Lesbian, Homosexual, trans-whatever, satan worshiper, communist, philanderer, child molester, or otherwise one of the Liberal 'cool kids' they have selected for the rest of the nation to emulate, from Marxists to 'gangsta' rappers. --people they can use to corrupt others for fun and profit, in the name of selling soap.
If Trump is doing anything contrary to what they want, they will object, especially because Hillary (or even Bernie) were far closer to their preferred result.
However, in the case of the researcher who was accused of Anthrax distribution, the 14 year old in the church Day Care, Randy Weaver (set up to use potential charges as leverage to get him to spy on some of the SPLC's least favorite people--only Weaver wouldn't), The Branch Davidians, Gordon Kahl, Lavoy Finicum, and a host of others, There was little done wrong with which to attack people, so something had to be invented to sway public opinion. In Trump's case, it is a combination of past misbehaviours and current propaganda which the the media throw at him and they use the past as a reason to justify the charges of the present. Past indiscretions were known before the election, pointed out in many places, including this site, and even if nothing had been done since, would provide the 'rap sheet' to lend credence to claims of future indiscretion, real or invented. In either case, the reason is distraction, not only from what has been achieved, but what is being revealed about the favorites of his accusers. A olitical ploy, on occasion based, however tenuously, in fact and past behaviour.
Character assassination through accusation, rumor, and innuendo, however, of those who are not deserving thereof, timed to destroy reputations just before an election or confirmation vote, (or, in some instances, a paramilitary style attack) and shied away from by the very Congresspeople who should stand foursquare behind those attacked reveals more about the character of the people who should defend them rather than retreat. To wit: that there is something in their past (or present, or both) which, if revealed would be career ending for them, so they are hunkered down, staying well out of the line of fire.
Character counts, and your past will be used against you, in the court of public opinion. In the event you have no image destroying events in your past, the Media will invent some for you, just in time for the ballots to be cast.
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