Carl Bernstein: This is the Trump story reporters need to cover: Is he fit to be President?
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Carl Bernstein: This is the Trump story reporters need to cover
http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/20/media/trump-carl-bernstein-reliable-sources/index.html?iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial
by Jackie Wattles @jackiewattles August 20, 2017: 7:44 PM ET
Uncomfortable questions about President Trump
Is President Trump stable and competent enough to do his job?
Investigative reporter and CNN contributor Carl Bernstein says reporters must be asking those questions.
"Republicans in Congress, the highest of intelligence officials, the highest of military officers in our country, leaders of the business community -- all of whom have dealt with the White House, and many of them dealt personally with Donald Trump -- have come to believe that he is unfit for the presidency," Bernstein told CNN's Brian Stelter on Sunday.
He said those people are "raising the very question of his stability and his mental fitness."
"Maybe what I'm being told is not as pervasive as I believe it is. Let's find out," Bernstein added. "We need as journalists to make this our primary function right now."
Stelter said on CNN's "Reliable Sources" that Trump's "actions and inactions in the wake of Charlottesville are provoking some uncomfortable conversations."
The questions, he said, include these: "Is the president of the United States a racist? Is he suffering from some kind of illness? Is he fit for office? And if he's unfit -- then what?" .................................
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