January 18, 2018: "Dictators Round the World Are Listening to the Words of Our President."

 

1/18/18: Can we assume the president woke up lonely in bed again? I think we can. In Touch magazine is running a 5,000-word interview with Stormy Daniels, the porn queen who says she slept with then-businessman Trump in 2006. 

FLOTUS cannot be amused. 

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“The news is what you can prove.”

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Just the right touch of slutty.

Stormy was paid not to tell about sleeping with Donald.

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IN OTHER NEWS, Sen. John McCain is the second GOP senator in two days to take the president to task for attacking the free press. In an opinion piece for the Washington Post, he writes: 

[The president] has threatened to continue his attempt to discredit the free press by bestowing “fake news awards” upon reporters and news outlets whose coverage he disagrees with. Whether Trump knows it or not, these efforts are being closely watched by foreign leaders who are already using his words as cover as they silence and shutter one of the key pillars of democracy.

 

McCain warns that dictators round the world are listening to the words of our president. Then they launch their own attacks modeled on his “Fake News” campaign. As it is here in America today, in their countries, “Fake News” is any news Vladimir, Kim Jong-un and Bashar al-Assad don’t like. “For decades,” McCain points out, “dissidents and human rights advocates have relied on independent investigations into government corruption to further their fight for freedom.” 

That’s still true in America. For now. We want Fox News to cover the Benghazi story. We want the free press to unmask the creepy behaviors of Harvey Weinstein and Bill O’Reilly. We want CNN to put hard questions to Trump and his surrogates and not feed us a steady diet of stories of Trumpian greatness. At the state and local level, we want a free press to unmask crooks in the New York statehouse, to comment on the sexual misdeeds of the Missouri governor, to give Chris Christie a thumping for Bridgegate. Unless we have our heads up our patooties, we want the press to follow leads in the Russia investigation and see where it ends. 

We can’t know yet where that is. No one can. The news isn’t “fake” a Washington Post reporter recently said. 

“The news is what you can prove.”