Orlando Sentinal endorses ANYONE, except Trump
Yesterday in Yahoo News;In response to:
Orlando Sentinel endorses 'not Donald Trump' for president ahead of reelection kickoff
Dylan StablefordSenior Editor
Yahoo News•June 18, 2019
Hours before President Trump was due to hold a rally in Orlando billed as the kickoff to his reelection campaign, the Orlando Sentinel announced who it is endorsing for president in 2020: not Donald Trump.
“Some readers will wonder how we could possibly eliminate a candidate so far before an election, and before knowing the identity of his opponent,” the paper said in a scathing editorial on Tuesday. “Because there’s no point pretending we would ever recommend that readers vote for Trump.”
The Sentinel has mostly endorsed Republicans since 1960, but in recent years it has been more independent, backing Democrats in 2004 (John Kerry over George W. Bush), 2008 (Barack Obama over John McCain) and 2016 (Hillary Clinton over Trump). It endorsed Republican Mitt Romney over Obama in 2012.
But Trump’s erratic behavior and petulant, dishonest statements in office pushed the Sentinel to its non-endorsement.
“After 2 1/2 years we’ve seen enough,” the editorial board said. “Enough of the chaos, the division, the schoolyard insults, the self-aggrandizement, the corruption, and especially the lies.”
The Sentinel pointed to the Washington Post’s “Fact Checker,” a database that has documented more than 10,000 false or misleading claims made by Trump since he took office.
“There was a time when even a single lie — a phony college degree, a bogus work history — would doom a politician’s career,” the Sentinel said. “Not so for Trump, who claimed in 2017 that he lost the popular vote because millions of people voted illegally (they didn’t). In 2018 he said North Korea was no longer a nuclear threat (it is). And in 2019 he said windmills cause cancer (they don’t). Just last week he claimed the media fabricated unfavorable results from his campaign’s internal polling (it didn’t).”
The editorial was published to coincide with Trump’s Tuesday night rally at Orlando’s Amway Center....
Orlando Sentinel endorses 'not Donald Trump' for president ahead of reelection kickoff
Dylan StablefordSenior Editor
Yahoo News•June 18, 2019
Hours before President Trump was due to hold a rally in Orlando billed as the kickoff to his reelection campaign, the Orlando Sentinel announced who it is endorsing for president in 2020: not Donald Trump.
“Some readers will wonder how we could possibly eliminate a candidate so far before an election, and before knowing the identity of his opponent,” the paper said in a scathing editorial on Tuesday. “Because there’s no point pretending we would ever recommend that readers vote for Trump.”
The Sentinel has mostly endorsed Republicans since 1960, but in recent years it has been more independent, backing Democrats in 2004 (John Kerry over George W. Bush), 2008 (Barack Obama over John McCain) and 2016 (Hillary Clinton over Trump). It endorsed Republican Mitt Romney over Obama in 2012.
But Trump’s erratic behavior and petulant, dishonest statements in office pushed the Sentinel to its non-endorsement.
“After 2 1/2 years we’ve seen enough,” the editorial board said. “Enough of the chaos, the division, the schoolyard insults, the self-aggrandizement, the corruption, and especially the lies.”
The Sentinel pointed to the Washington Post’s “Fact Checker,” a database that has documented more than 10,000 false or misleading claims made by Trump since he took office.
“There was a time when even a single lie — a phony college degree, a bogus work history — would doom a politician’s career,” the Sentinel said. “Not so for Trump, who claimed in 2017 that he lost the popular vote because millions of people voted illegally (they didn’t). In 2018 he said North Korea was no longer a nuclear threat (it is). And in 2019 he said windmills cause cancer (they don’t). Just last week he claimed the media fabricated unfavorable results from his campaign’s internal polling (it didn’t).”
The editorial was published to coincide with Trump’s Tuesday night rally at Orlando’s Amway Center....
How ironic, that the ripoff pyramid company Amway is involved with financing Trump's campaigns. That's why Trump appointed Betsy DeVos to his cabinet to be Secretary of
Education, the first (and hopefully last) person with no teaching experience to ever be appointed to that position.
To my experience this is the first major newspaper ever to announce that they will support anyone except the president. Kudos to them for taking the stance of
truth/lies and performance being critical barometers in which to judge a candidate.
Hopefully more newspapers, magazines, and people will do the same.
Indeed, the early polls seem appear to indicate, that we the people have grown tired
of the dishonest false promises carnival show, that is Donald Trump.
There's a lot of firsts with Trump, and almost all of them are bad.
He certainly has lived down to being officially determined to be the worst president in US history.
For the sake of the country and the world it is imperative to bring sanity back to the White House by electing someone much more qualified and honest than Trump.
