BACKGROUND
1) William R. Bay,”ABA: Trump team’s ‘wide-scale affronts to the rule of law’ weaken America,” Erie Times News/MSN,February 11, 2025;
2) Sara Boboltz “American Bar Association Says Trump Is Not Following The Rule Of Law; “No American can be proud of a government that carries out change in this way,” the group’s president wrote in a searing statement, HUFF POST, Febuary 11, 2025 (12:42 PM EST);
As of 9:00 p.m. on February 11, neither the Washington Post nor the New York Times had posted a story about the ABA president’s statement.
Do the editors at the Washington Post even know what the American Bar Association is?
Or do they have instructions to limit the articles critical of Trump that they print? Since Jeff Bezos’s interference in the editorial process at the Post, one must always suspect the paper is pulling its punches when it comes to Trump.
See Jennifer Rubin, “I Have Resigned from The Washington Post, effective today; Why I left to help launch a vibrant, new, independent media outlet, The Contrarian, January 13, 2025.
Do the editors at the New York Times even know what the American Bar Association is?
Are they also pulling their punches?
See Paul Krugman, “Leaving the New York Times; The full story,” Paul Krugman (Substack), January 28, 2025.
Our leading newspapers appear to pulling their punches when it comes to Trump. This is manifested in stories they don’t cover, the calm way in which they report outrageous developments in an ongoing coup d’état, or autogolpe (self coup), and in the lack of investigative journalism that explains what us going on in Trump’s and Musk’s ongoing efforts to overthrow the Constitutional order and the rule of law.
In an earlier time, they would have been all over a statement by the president of the American Bar Association that the President was not following the Rule of Law.
As lamentable as this is to a longtime reader and fan of the Times since Vietnam days and Watergate, we must now look also to alternative news sources such as The Contrarian to get the full range of news, analysis, and opinion we need in order to defend and sustain our democracy.