Leaders are measured by their response to hardship. The Post self-righteously presents itself as democracy’s handmaiden.
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The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was born on June 14, 1946, details confirmed in 2013 when Trump at the HBO host’s prompting made public his own “certification of birth”.
On Monday, he and his campaign announced that they would revoke the Post credentials.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday called for surveillance of mosques as part of U.S. law enforcement efforts to prevent terrorism, and stood by his remarks on banning Muslim immigrants, which others in his party have criticised.
In addition to its daily news coverage of Trump, The Post has a team of reporters and editors engaged in writing a book about Trump’s life and business career that will be published this summer.
“I think McKay’s profile holds up extremely well, and I’m proud that we’ve chosen not to compromise our coverage in any way in exchange for access”, Smith said. He again blasted Obama for refusing to use the words “radical Islamic terrorism”, suggesting Obama might have a risky softness on radical Islam. “It’s inconceivable. There’s something going on”.
Others at the newspaper have tried to contact Trump, but he said “I don’t want to say what they are” doing.
As always, it’s hard to determine exactly what Trump meant in his original statements, which included the observation: “Look, we’re led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind”. Bill Clinton, to whose foundation Trump donated, and who attended Trump’s most recent wedding, said at the time that Trump had been “uncommonly nice to Hillary and me”. Bezos denied Trump’s claims and said the comments weren’t “appropriate” for a presidential candidate.
A Trump campaign spokesperson declined to comment for the story.
Trump’s campaign had taken issue with an article on the Post’s website with the headline, “Donald Trump suggests President Obama was involved with Orlando shooting”.
Except this time, Trump did more than feign ignorance.
Trump wrote on his Facebook page, “Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phoney and dishonest Washington Post”.
This, again, works out nicely for Trump.
Another major media outlet has gotten the boot by the Donald Trump campaign.
The notion of a free press was so important that the Founding Fathers baked it into the Constitution.
Clinton hit Trump earlier this month on national security, saying his ideas would put America in greater danger and inspire more terrorist attacks.
The reason Jonah Peretti cited was that Trump’s campaign policies are “directly opposed to the freedoms of our employees in the United States and around the world”.
“Attached hereto is a copy of Mr. Trump’s birth certificate, demonstrating that he is the son of Fred Trump, not an orangutan”, Trump’s lawyer wrote by way of introduction.
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“But defeating Donald Trump can not be our only goal”.
