Media Failure Continues

Jamison Foser highlights the difference in coverage that the New York Times gave Comey’s letter versus the announcement that Trump had agreed to settle the Trump University lawsuit, which included a $1 million payment for violating New York State education law. Notice anything different about how much and where the coverage is placed:

Already, Trump has started to merge his business interests and his Presidential duties by soliciting foreign delegations to use his Trump Hotel in DC and attending to his business interests in India. Meanwhile the Philippines appoints his business partner there as its new trade envoy to the US, an example of how foreign governments will actually use Trump’s business interests to advance their own agenda with the President. Today, the Times at least has a front page article on Trump mixing his business affairs with the office of the Presidency, but with the watered-down headline of “Trump Brand And Statecraft: A Hazy Divide“. It is quite clear, not hazy, that there currently is no divide between Trump’s business interests and his role as President. And having his children run his businesses will do nothing to actually create even the hazy divide that the Times wishes it could see.

If the media is going to continually downplay Trump’s corruption as it did during the campaign, then we are truly be doomed to becoming just another kleptocracy.