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Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 05:36 PM Apr 2017

Our Dishonest President: L.A. Times editorial eviscerates Trump

https://www.yahoo.com/news/our-dishonest-president-l-a-times-editorial-eviscerates-trump-195956411.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw


Since Donald Trump began his stunning ascent from real estate mogul and reality television star to wall-building, Muslim-ban-promising Republican candidate to GOP nominee to president, there have been plenty of piercing editorials about him and his policies.

But perhaps none have been as scathing as the one published Sunday by the Los Angeles Times.

“It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters,” the Times editorial board wrote in the first of a four-part op-ed titled “Our Dishonest President.”

In September, the same editorial board called Trump “unqualified and unsuited to be president” and said his election would be “catastrophic for the nation.”

“Still, nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck,” the paper said Sunday.
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Sun Apr 2, 2017, 06:00 PM
Apr 2017

in this editorial is, make no mistake about it, extraordinary. Kudos to the LA Times! Can't wait to read tomorrow's Part II.

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