{"id":16032,"date":"2016-12-07T17:20:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=16032"},"modified":"2016-12-07T17:20:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T22:20:52","slug":"many-distortions-in-trump-letter-says-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/many-distortions-in-trump-letter-says-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Many \u201cdistortions\u201d in Trump letter, says reader"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Re: Media \u201ccontrolled\u201d election message\u201d, December 1)<\/em><\/p>\n

There are many distortions in the letter \u201cMedia \u2018controlled\u2019 election message\u201d that was published in The Auroran on December 1.
\nThe writer says Donald Trump was unfairly labelled racist by the media. Apparently she has successfully managed to overlook the long list of racist remarks candidate Trump made that have been recorded on audio and video.
\nHe has refused to disavow the Ku Klux Klan, labelled American born Judge Gonzalo Curiel as biased because he was \u201cMexican\u201d after the judge ruled against him in a lawsuit, characterized illegal immigrants from Mexico as \u201crapists\u201d, and repeatedly demonized Muslims because of their religion.
\nHis real estate company was sued by the Justice Department in the 70s for violating the Fair Housing Act by refusing to rent to African Americans. Is this behaviour \u201cracist\u201d or just \u201cinsensitive\u201d as the writer would have us believe? His election win appears to have increased racially motivated attacks, not only in the U.S. but in Canada.
\nMedia bias? The New York Times estimated that during the campaign Donald Trump received around $2 billion worth of unpurchased media exposure, during which many of his outrageous remarks were not fact-checked in any significant way by main-stream media.
\nThis may reveal media bias, but certainly not anti-Trump bias. A number of web sites and news organizations attempted to fact check many of Trump\u2019s pronouncements and found that he lied 70% of the time.
\nIt\u2019s also worth noting that the letter\u2019s suggestion that the Obama administration somehow damaged the U.S. economy is a bit ridiculous.
\nCertainly the national debt increased during Obama\u2019s administration as it did significantly during the Bush administration. George W. Bush nearly doubled the debt by giving big tax cuts to the already wealthy, starting two wars, and presiding over a historic economic crash in 2008. Obama inherited all these liabilities from Bush including the huge monetary bailouts for the financial players who were largely responsible for the crash and recession in the first place.
\nAccording to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate at the end of Bush\u2019s term in 2008 was 7.3%. At the end of 2009, it was 9.9% but this can hardly be blamed on Obama since he inherited Bush\u2019s budget and recession. It now stands at 4.6%. This can hardly be called mismanagement of the economy by Obama.
\nThe home ownership rate is low because the housing bubble burst in 2008 at the end of Bush\u2019s presidency, and subsequently the banks foreclosed, sometimes illegally, on record numbers of homeowners after tightening the rules for taking out mortgage loans.
\nNo, Donald Trump will not be the saviour of the white working class. He didn\u2019t even win the popular vote in the election. If his recent selection of the wealthiest cabinet in American history is any indication, he will continue to be the bloviating con man he has always been and will likely profit from it. Let\u2019s hope his history of business bankruptcies which stiffed shareholders, creditors and working people alike doesn\u2019t carry over to his management of the American economy to the detriment of the world. <\/p>\n

John Connolley
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(Re: Media \u201ccontrolled\u201d election message\u201d, December 1) There are many distortions in the letter \u201cMedia \u2018controlled\u2019 election message\u201d that was published in The Auroran on December 1. The writer says Donald Trump was unfairly labelled racist by the media. Apparently she has successfully managed to overlook the long list of racist remarks candidate Trump made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-4aA","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 02:11:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}