Progressive officials, but not racist Trump, are targets of news media feeding frenzies

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By VICTOR E. SASSON
EDITOR

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Looking ahead to the 2020 presidential election, do I really care whether Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren passed along family lore about her heritage as fact?

No. But I do care about what Warren will do to re-establish protections for the consumer the Trump administration dismantled, as well as her plans for taxing the rich and universal health care.

But whether Warren actually is a Native America is the subject of a news media feeding frenzy, and I'm sure I will hear about it nearly every day until the election on Nov. 3, 2020.

Another controversy getting intense media attention also involves Democrats, this one focusing on Virginia's governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general.

Suspiciously, the official in line to take over in Richmond -- onetime capital of the Confederacy -- if all three Democrats resign, is a Republican.

Can you imagine how much damage this Republican could do by limiting instead of expanding Medicaid and suppressing voting rights until another gubernatorial election can be held?

Trumps get a pass

Yet, many of these same reporters seem to have forgotten all of President Trump's transgressions and hardly pay any attention to repeated calls for his resignation, impeachment or indictment.

Here is Trump, leader of the so-called free world, who was elected not by popular vote but with the help of a Russian disinformation campaign in the months leading up to the 2016 election.

Since he was sworn in a little over 2 years ago, a traitorous Trump has divided us more than at any time since the Civil War, and nearly every word out of his mouth is a lie.

Tax evasion, racism

He brought to the White House a history of tax evasion and cheating inherited from his father, developer Fred Trump, who denied apartments to blacks and once was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally.

Why aren't the news media focusing on any of this Trump history ad nauseum in the same way we are hearing about Democrats' flaws?

I'm still waiting for a White House reporter -- any reporter-- to confront Trump and ask, "When are you going to stop lying to the American people"