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Because he and his sick regime are doing everything they can to bring that about.

But, as Ben Meiselas points out, “they hate America and they hate their audience.” He deconstructs the drooling idiocy of the Fox hosts–Jesse Watters, Laura Ingraham, Brett Baier– who had the time of their lives paying tribute to Xi at the state dinner. Utter boobs as well as dangerous, traitorous propagandists.

The New York Times confirms Haaretz’s reporting.

Reminds us of how George W. Bush was warned in August 2001 about the upcoming Al Quaeda attack.

Why do denmocracies elect monsters who betray their countries? Why are they tolerated?

Have we ever seen an American president grovel the way Trump did before Xi?

The clown leer he’s been sporting for years now alternates with the vacant, derelict grin of a rapidly-depleting connection to any but a private reality.

Don’t they realize that this a fundamental issue crucial to the survival of not only this country, but of the human species itself?

Instead, it was simply a manifestation of Trump’s personal politics. Epstein class, oligarchs, propaganda media, vest-pocket Supreme Court justices, military war criminals all the way. No artists, academics, humanitarians. What a ghastly picture of America it presented to the world.

Trump’s own behavior was, of course, an embarrassment. He bowed and scraped before the Communist dictator like a particularly unctuous head waiter.

No one on “mainstream” TV has amplified anti-Semitic tropes more enhusiastically than Carlson.

Even if his current show of contrition is real–which I doubt–the fact is, that he is a nepo baby whose “journalistic” carer has been a matter of failing upward as he spouted racist filth and traitorous attempts to undermine our democracy–vide his promotion of “Stop the Steal,” which was so vicious and fraudulent that it cost the Murdochs 3/4 of a billion dollars.

Corporate media has finally realized that Trump needs them more than they need him.