President Donald Trump's sweeping pardons on Monday and commutations of sentences for prisoners and defendants on January 6 have sparked a wave of protests, cries of condemnation and pleas that “this is not normal.” It was supposed to be. However, that wasn't the case. While the usual suspects scrawled rebuttals, bigger Washington just shrugged.
Brian Stelter, who was rehired by CNN last fall after two years of exile in his apartment, was predictably passionate about the outrage. he
hurt He unfavorably compared Fox News' coverage of Jake Paul and Mike Tyson competing with other news outlets to cover the celebrations and the president's policy promises to his own courageous reporting. .
There are multiple reasons why apocalyptic news outlets are generally subdued.
“While the press focuses on the rule of law, the MAGA editorial machine focuses on Trump’s governance,” he whined.
“They attacked police officers and tried to overturn the election,” another CNN article said.
read. “What you need to know about President Trump's mass pardons for the January 6th rioters”
But even beyond true believers, most people just shrugged their shoulders. The Washington Post dedicated its homepage to anti-Trump plans and warnings, but the pardon barely made it into the news.
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Politico's morning edition outlined the new president's early infrastructure plans, the policy implications of some of his executive orders and his relaxed demeanor. The pardon was not granted until the ninth paragraph. The paper called it “the biggest news of the night,” but the focus was on whether Republicans would sulk over all of this. In short, it's more politics than historicism.
The New York Times treated pardoners the same way the Post did, listing them at the bottom right of the page.
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On Tuesday morning, the LA Times unsurprisingly devoted the top two-thirds of its homepage to the devastation of the wildfires. The pardon was not posted on the website this morning.
Punchbowl's morning edition, which focuses on Congress, only mentioned the wide-ranging executive action in a section of the text and offered no insight into how lawmakers were reacting.
The word “unprecedented,” a cliché used almost hourly in corporate media coverage of President Trump's first term as president, never appeared in the above analysis. It's America's Golden Age!
There are multiple reasons why apocalyptic news outlets are generally subdued. First, the breadth and depth of the pardon pleasantly surprised many Trump supporters, but it had long been expected. He promised to do this again and again, and he did.
Second is the reality of Trump's new legitimacy. After eight years of nearly all of his warnings coming true, public persecution and incredible assassination attempts, Mr. Trump now has far more political capital than any other person in the country. There is.
Politico co-founder John Harris says it best:
Editorial About Trump's place in history. He said Democrats learned the hard way that they “cannot corner Trump by treating him as a temporary anomaly or simply accusing him of being lawless and illegal.” It is written that. The title of the truly amazing article is “It's Time to Admit: Trump is a Great President.” He's still trying to be a good person. ”
Third, a pardon from outgoing President Joe Biden. They were terrible and self-centered, and he and his allies had repeatedly promised not to do that. They muddied the waters, made fun of every clean hit against Trump, and deeply tarnished his legacy.
Finally, the American public is fed up with the J6. I'm really tired of it. It's been gutted and we know it. The imaginary heroic story couldn't even get former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn elected in the 2024 Democratic primary. Located in the deep blue state of Maryland, just a short drive from the outskirts of DC. We know that there were terrible instances of violence that day, but we also know that the Department of Justice launched the largest investigation in modern history. And it can be assumed that there was a considerable amount of misjudgment. Even those who may have earned time have already served years in prison.
Blaze News investigative reporter and former J6 defendant Steve Baker told the Beltway Brief: “Whether the Oath Keepers are individually guilty or innocent, the one thing they are not guilty of is… is the crime for which they were convicted.” He's not the only one to realize this.
Incidentally, that vague consciousness will only grow as those released from solitary confinement tell their stories.
“I’m in control of this.” [J6] “Because in order to understand what Americans of all political persuasions are feeling and thinking right now, we must burst these media bubbles,” Stelter wrote Tuesday morning. .
That's an interesting thought. What's interesting is that that bubble is his own. And it's shrinking by the hour.
Politician: It's time to admit it: Trump is a great president. He's still trying to be a good person.
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