Double Standard It's Not Your Imagination. The Rules Really Are Different for Trump.
Remember when political fact-checking was all the rage a couple decades ago? We had Politifact, FactCheck.org, and dozens of mainstream outlets dutifully calling out politicians for fudging the trade deficit in speeches or twisting the words of their opponent in campaign ads.
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Ah, shame. Remember that? That disappeared a decade ago. I’d put the time of death on November 8, 2016, when Donald Trump won the election just a month after the infamous Access Hollywood tape was released with him musing about his “grab ‘em by the pussy” philosophy for dealing with women.
Now Trump’s first term didn’t kill off the fact-checking trend — quite the opposite. The Washington Post painstakingly chronicled his mendacity and identified 30,573 false or misleading claims over four years. It’s almost impressive that Trump had time to get impeached twice, work to overturn the 2020 election, and oversee a pandemic that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans.
But, as we all know, the Post’s motto of “Democracy Dies in Darkness” has become a sick joke during Trump’s second term. Its billionaire owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has fallen over himself to curry favor with the administration and has slashed over a third of the paper’s staff.
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/double-standard-its-not-your-imagination
Bezos is hoping to get the same rocket ship money that Musk has.