In two years, seven months, and seven days every time Trump opens his mouth at a press conference, a talk with reporters before boarding Marine One, or at one of his hate rallies, every word from his mouth is a lie. When he sends illiterate and hate-filled tweets every morning, they are filled with lies. I don’t read them; nothing upsets me more than to be lied to. What I don’t understand is why the mainstream media continues to report his constant falsehoods. Doing so makes them less credible and allows Trump to have a voice where it is not deserved.

It is a crime to report anything which is untrue. The American people deserve better, but the media refuses to openly state that Trump is a white supremacist, a philanderer, a sexual predator, a xenophobe, a misogynist, an Islamophobe, and a Homophobe. Recently he added anti-Semite to his list of crimes against humanity.

On November 9, 2016, I promised myself that I would no longer watch television news. Throughout the 2016 campaign they gave Trump five-times more coverage than all other candidates combined. They allowed Trump’s paid liars to refuse answering direct questions and talk to the American people about their own agenda. When Trump was exposed as a sexual predator on the “Access Hollywood” tapes they barely covered the expose. They acted similarly When 20 women claimed they were sexually assaulted by the dirty old man, and when it was confirmed that Trump had affairs with a porn star and a Playboy model immediately after his son, Barron, was born. They have given him a free pass. However, Hillary Clinton was held to an impossibly high standard. Talk about her alleged illegal e-mails was endless.

The mainstream media is worthless, and an insult to former and legitimate members of the fourth estate. They were complicit in Trump’s illegitimate victory in the Electoral College.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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