Fellow Progressives, Democrats, Moderates and Conservatives, this is it. A presidential candidate has outright called for a treasonous act on our country. Full stop. Donald Trump wants a foreign entity, Putin/Russian, to either hack or have hacked a U.S. Official’s emails to release them to the public to destroy her campaign for presidency. His friend, Newt Gingrich, pretended that Trump was joking, but Trump doubled down with a tweet stating outright:
How do you think CNN has framed this disgusting and treasonous insanity? Hint, they don’t feel that Trump’s actions were outright dangerous. Instead, this is their headline: Dems accuse Trump of disloyalty over Clinton emails
How dare Trump be so “disloyal!” Disloyal!? Assuming this was simply “disloyalty,” how did that perception even BEGIN with the Democrats in the first place!?!
This framing of the incident is not only absurd, it is a full abdication of CNN’s role in society. As a news outlet, they should be completely tearing this action apart. Instead, the headline from CNN is some disgusting implication that Democrats are clutching their pearls and trying to make this is a big deal because Trump said something “disloyal.” This is such a reductive and offensive take on what happened today, that it must give everyone pause and then immediately must move you to action. We must not, we CANNOT let this dangerous framing of dangerous issues stand anymore. CNN hired Trump’s previous campaign manager, and it’s pretty clear from this article where they stand on Trump as a candidate.
Folks, it cannot be overstated how outraged you should be over what happened today. It should have completely obliterated Trump’s candidacy, but instead CNN has the audacity to frame this as some overreaction from the Democrats. No more. We cannot allow these action to stand from our presidential nominees nor from the fourth estate.
Do NOT let this story pass and do NOT let CNN and other media outlets off the hook. Trump and the GOP must finally get their comeuppance for their literal threats to the country and to its people.