American Patriot Daily – The so-called “mainstream” media is salivating over the manufactured Trump scandals. They are convinced they are on the verge of collecting his political scalp.
But one famed Watergate journalist delivered a message they don’t want to hear. Bob Woodward was one half of the “Woodward and Bernstein” team that reported on Watergate for the Washington Post. ournalists revere them because they established the template for how the media could drive a Republican President from office.
Many reporters were hoping to implement that same playbook during the Trump-Russia “scandal.” Woodward told them to cool their jets and that Trump would serve his full first term and maybe even more.
He also ripped the media for their “smugness” which reveals their anti-Trump bias. Continue reading
James Petras – The norms of US capitalist democracy include the election of presidential candidates through competitive elections, unimpeded by force and violence by the permanent institutions of the state. Voter manipulation has occurred during the recent elections, as in the case of the John F. Kennedy victory in 1960 and the George W. Bush victory over ‘Al’ Gore in 2000. But despite the dubious electoral outcomes in these cases, the ‘defeated’ candidate conceded and sought via legislation, judicial rulings, lobbying and peaceful protests to register their opposition.