Trump Isn’t President, But The Left Is Still Blaming Him For Everything – The Federalist

Trumps shadow looms over Bidens presidency and a divided nation. So ran the headline of the latest piece of propaganda scribed by the Democrat mouthpiece publishing under the banner of the Washington Post. Line after line following that in last Thursdays purported analysis cements the sad reality that journalism dies in broad daylight.

In advance of this weeks State of the Union address, Washington Post staffers peppered the public with reasons for Joe Biden to blame former President Trump for the countrys divisionand Bidens inability to keep his promises.

Joe Biden won the White House by appealing for calm and unity. But he has inherited a fractured and volatile nation, the article began. Yes, Biden pushed unity as a campaign theme, but that appeal didnt win Biden the White House. It was a corrupt media. It is also the left and its complicit media that sow the division that is destroying our country.

The corrupt media sold the American public a fictional figurea healer, a moderate, a temperate manwhile burying Bidens bullying behavior and extreme positions. CNN got Trump out by pushing propaganda designed to hurt the 45th president.

In addition, a collusion of purpose drove the major news and social media outlets to banish The New York Posts blockbuster reporting on Joe Bidens pay-to-play scandal revealed by the trove of emails recovered from Hunter Bidens abandoned MacBook. The latter election-interference alone likely cost Trump a second term, with 4.6% of Biden voters [saying] they would not have selected him had they been aware of his sons China money affair.

Bidens unity theme is bunk. Soon after reading his inaugural address repeating that theme, as I noted previously, The president began to divide the nation with the flick of his pen, signing a flurry of executive orders that pitted Americans against each other. Bidens reversal of the Mexico City policy was a painful attack on pro-life Americans, forcing them to fund international abortion providers with their tax dollars. Halting the Keystone XL Pipeline promises to decimate many of this countrys blue-collar oil workers. And by discontinuing the border wall and instituting a 100-day freeze on deportations, Biden has pitted border states against the federal government, as southern states fight to safeguard American citizens and their fiscal health.

Yet the Washington Post, like most Trump critics, blames the former president for the countrys current divisions, and views Biden as the innocent who inherited the tinderbox. However, the divide between left and right long predated Trump. All Trump did was punch back. He did it as a street-fighter, never trained to aim above the belt like a lifetime politicians.

Democrats and their professional propogandists dont want a clean fight, either. They dont want debate and compromiseor better yet federalismto bridge the divide. They want unity by capitulation.

The Washington Posts analysis on the issues that divide so clearly proves this point. As Biden tries to keep his own promises, these are the volatile issues that confront him and continue to divide America, the article reads, suggesting if only Biden were able to fulfill his campaign pledges, America would be united.

Issue one dividing the country, according to the Post, is immigration. And why the schism? Its not because immigration has always been an intractable issue, with half (or more) of Americans supporting border security and limited legal immigration in a time of tight labor markets. No, its Trumps fault because he vilified immigrants like no president in modern times and his policies reduced the number of immigrant visas issued overseas and caused the annual growth of the immigrant population to plunge.

Ignored fully in last weeks P.R. release on behalf of Team Biden were the current presidents policies that caused a crisis on the southern border. Instead, the Post again presented the challenge as one Biden inherited, noting asylum seekers are still being turned away at ports of entry.

While acknowledging that a record number of unaccompanied teens and children are being held in detention centers, often for longer than legally allowed, Bidens complicity in that crisis merits no mention in the article. Rather, the Post again quickly pivots to Trump, writing in the next sentence that House GOP leader Keven McCarthy (Calif.) returned to Trumps messaging, spreading unfounded claims that terrorists were trying to enter the United States through Mexico.

Here we see the corrupt medias role as both a propaganda machine and as a divider. Under Trump, it was kids in cages, but now its detention centers. Yet it is the Post and not McCarthy spreading unfounded claims: U.S. Border Patrol confirmed just weeks ago that two Yemeni men who were both named on the FBIs terror watchlist and no-fly list illegally crossed the southern U.S. border before being arrested.

While the left remains blinded to the medias role in dividing America, the populace sees the propaganda aimed at denigrating those with wrong-think and resents the co-conspiratorial role leftist politicians and the press have forged.

No better example may exist than the transitional sentence the Posts staffer penned to take readers to the next volatile issue dividing America. Biden has promised to be a president for All Americans, the text ran before highlighting Bidens pledge[] to confront white supremacy and advance racial justice.

He was quick to condemn hate crimes against Asian Americans, the puffery continued, while ignoring that the Biden administration dropped the federal lawsuit filed against Yale University based on its admissions policies that discriminate against Asian Americans. Then came the attacks on Trump, with a link to a supposed in-depth look at how Trump policies and rhetoric exacerbated racial tensions.

Sadly, our country is experiencing a strain in race relations, but it is Biden, the left, and their complicit media torquing those tensions. Here are just a few examples: Biden regularlyrepeat[ed]the lie that then-President Trump called neo-Nazis and white supremacists very fine people, and the press perpetuated that lie. BidensmearedRepublican Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas as Nazis. The president outrageously condemned Georgias voter-integrity law as a return Jim Crow, and encouraged Major League Baseball to move the All-Star Game as punishment.

The Biden administration, backed by much of corporate media, continued this path of divisiveness with its reaction to the shooting death of MaKhia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio. While video footage established the police officers quick reaction and sure shot saved another black girl from being stabbed by a charging Bryant, the press instead ran with the inciting and incomplete narrative that police had killed a black teen.

When asked about the incident, Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki took this tack as well, implying race was a factor in the shooting and that the officer acted unjustifiably: She was a child. Were thinking of her friends and family in the communities that are hurting and grieving her loss. We know that police violence disproportionately impacts black and Latino people in communities and that black women and girls, like black men and boys, experience higher rates of police violence.

As the press secretary for the countrys top Democrat, Psakis comments also represented a shocking chutzpah, as last year Senate Democrats killed Sen. Tim Scotts police reform bill.

Today we lost, I lost, the vote on a piece of legislation that wouldve led to systemic change in the relationship between communities of color and the law enforcement community, Scott said when his bill died. We wouldve broken this concept in this nation that somehow, some way you have to either be for law enforcement or for communities of color. That is a binary choice. Its just not true, Scott said.

The corporate press virtually ignored the demise of Scotts legislative proposal, and for good-in-their-eyes reasons: Scott is a Republican and African-American. As if to prove their motive, the Washington Posts Glenn Kessler last week ran a hit piece on Scott under the auspices of fact-checking his heritage as the grandson of a grammar-school drop-out and cotton-picker.

Yet the same Washington Post that ran Kesslers embarrassing self-own touted Bidens warning, We must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufacturer, as the answer to our countrys division. The great American divide can also be mended, the Post suggests, if Biden can move quickly to fill vacancies on federal courts. Rejoining the Paris climate agreement and reversing the rest of Trumps environmental impact, the Post claimed, will also heal the nation.

In other words, if everything Trump did can be undone, our country will be all kumbaya. Unity by capitulation, however, is not unity; it is totalitarianism. Democrats seek it and the corrupt media sells itand they do so in the open air.

But sunshine is a disinfectant that still holds the chance of destroying the symbiotic relationship between the press and leftist politicians, designed to put and keep the country in the lefts tight control. Perhaps democracy will die after all, but if so, lets make it do so in the light.

Margot Cleveland is a senior contributor to The Federalist. Cleveland served nearly 25 years as a permanent law clerk to a federal appellate judge and is a former full-time faculty member and adjunct instructor at the college of business at the University of Notre Dame.The views expressed here are those of Cleveland in her private capacity.

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Trump Isn't President, But The Left Is Still Blaming Him For Everything - The Federalist