Our liberal media ignores Trump's illegal campaign gift to go after the Clinton Foundation

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by Laura Clawson at the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/2/1566137/-Our-liberal-media-ignores-Trump-s-illegal-campaign-gift-to-go-after-the-Clinton-Foundation

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hursday, the Washington Post ran a story about an actual illegal political contribution coming from a candidate’s charitable foundation leading to an IRS penalty—for Donald Trump. Friday, which candidate’s foundation was the subject of a New York Times story filled with suggestions of pay-to-play? Yup, Hillary Clinton.

The Times didn’t even bury coverage of Trump’s illegal contribution to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s group on page B47 or what have you. It simply didn't cover the story of Trump’s foundation giving money to a political group—which is illegal—and the extremely questionable explanations for just how that happened. Instead, the Times was focused on “new questions about Clinton Foundation ties to State Dept.,” which amounted to some of former President Bill Clinton’s aides asking if they could get diplomatic passports associated with his trip to North Korea to negotiate for the release of two American journalists. They didn’t get the passports, but somehow that was what was newsworthy today.

In a similar vein, on Thursday, Politico dedicated a long article to Bill Clinton’s legal staffing arrangements as a former president who also runs a major foundation, but its only mention of the Trump-Bondi story was a paragraph blurb in the middle of the “Florida Playbook.”

We see it again and again: the media dedicates extensive coverage to implying that the Clintons have done something wrong, burying the revelation that their actions were totally legal deep in the middle of a long article, while ignoring stories about actual wrongdoing by Trump.



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[asiliveandbreathe]

1. So many great articles pushing back on so called journos..

At Media Matters....

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/09/01/problem-politico-report-clinton-foundation/212819


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Even though the article doesn’t show any legal wrongdoing, it still suggests that the behavior in question is sketchy -- which is the hallmark of what Vox’s former chief political correspondent Jonathan Allen called “the Clinton rules” in 2015.


These “rules” have permeated media coverage of the Clintons during Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. According to Allen, many in media inherently “assume [Hillary Clinton] is acting in bad faith” and that “when the Clintons aren't forthcoming — and sometimes, even when they are — they're covering something up.”

[Thinkingabout]

2. Trump knows lots about pay to play, he has bragged about this for years.

He tries to bring suspicions about the Clinton Foundation because he knows his foundation has been used for pay for play. I think lots of the crap said by Trump are things he is guilty of doing.