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“As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes” –Marcus Tullius Cicero
As President elect Trump announces, with amazing swiftness, his picks to fill his cabinet, the discredited, mendacious, left wing legacy press will start to manufacture negative stories about the nominees. These so-called journalists will cite “anonymous sources”. They will relate unsubstantiated rumors and decade old alleged indiscretions or misdeeds. They will do this because they are the last vanguard of the “swamp”, “the shadow government”, and the unelected bureaucracy.
As with any attempt at major reform, those who profit from the status quo, will do everything in their power to defeat any significant change. With Trump’s landslide victory, it appears most of his cabinet nominees will be affirmed by the Senate. Matt Gaetz’s withdrawal from the position of Attorney General was to be expected. Gaetz was despised by the establishment Rhino Republicans because of his organizing the ouster of Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy. Trump’s speedy naming of Florida’s Pam Bondi to that position indicates that he recognized that Gaetz wouldn’t pass the Senate vote.
The next move by the left wing media will be to focus their attacks on Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence and Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense. Both the nominees for Intelligence Director and Secretary of Defense are the focus of negative attacks by leftist media. They are using their old weapons of making unsubstantiated claims of misconduct, gossip and claims that the nominees “lack experience”. Now that Trump has named Kash Patel as his choice to become the director of the FBI, the globalist, progressive press has three strong MAGA supporting conservatives to focus on.
We know what to expect. The Democrat, partisan, internationalist leaning media, has done it all before. Hopefully, this will be the death rattle of legacy press, television, cable and periodical news organizations. The public trusts them less than used car salesmen, telemarketers and the mayors of sanctuary cities.
It’s no wonder. These fake newsies have been caught in so many lies and suppressed so many stories, it would take several reams of paper to list them. In addition, they rarely acknowledge when their disinformation has been exposed or apologized for advancing it. And when they do, it is done in a quiet way that is unlikely to draw attention. It’s akin to a local newspaper with a front page headline naming a popular high school teacher of molesting children in the gym. When the story is later proved to be false, the newspaper will print a retraction on page 35.
How long did the media run stories about the Russian pee pee tape? Why did they bash the Hunter Biden laptop expose’ right before the 2020 election? Why do they keep insisting that January 6 was an insurrection, when at best it was a riot that would have never occurred if the Capitol Police had been assisted by the National Guard, like President Trump had suggested? And those are just the tip of the gigantic iceberg.
The point is that the vast majority of the people do not believe what the discredited press tells them anymore. Too many lies, too many biased reports, too many suppressed stories have proven to the public that it is going to other sources for their news. The internet, blogs and podcasts have proven to be much more reliable. So the mainstream media is not so mainstream anymore and few will believe the smears they will attempt against Trump cabinet nominees Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, or any of the others. I saw a quote that applies to what the former main stream media and the progressive Democrats do to their political foes. I don’t know for sure who made this sagacious statement, but it is similar to what George Bernard Shaw has said.
“False knowledge is worse than ignorance, especially when it’s used against someone. It’s best to have all of the facts and know what you are talking about before you condemn someone for something you really know nothing about. Facts are never hearsay or what someone says or what you heard from a person. Facts are what you actually see or witness. You may think you know everything, but you don’t”
