When U.K.-born Oxford graduate James Goldston took over president of ABC News April10, 2014, the parent entity Walt Disney Company put an unapologetic leftist at the helm of the once respected news network. Since taking over from Ben Sherwood, Goldston turned the network into an extension of the Democrat Party, pushing hard in 2016 to see 72-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton become president. When that didn’t happen, Goldston did everything in his power to advance the Russian Hoax, branding 74-uyear-old President Donald Trump as a Russian asset, spending three years of programs supporting spurious reporting at the New York Times and Washington Post. When the Russian Hoax to remove Trump from office blew up in the media’s face, ABC News spent every waking hour in its news and entertainment division bashing Trump.
Goldston had everything he wanted in Chief ABC News anchor 59-year-old Geroge Stephanopoulos, the former Communication Director of former President Bill Clinton. Under Goldston ABC News key programs “Good Morning America,” “This Week” with George Stephaopoulos and “Late-Night” entertainment with 52-year-old Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel, competing with CBS “Late Show” with 56-year-old Stephen Colbert and NBC’s “Tonight Show” with 45-year-old Jimmy Fallon spend most of their monologues ripping Trump. No one bashes Trump with more venom than Kimmel who’s been given his orders from Goldston to use his Nielson ratings, audience and show to rip Trump in his monologue. Before the Trump era, late night shows were nonpartisan, mostly apolitical until major news network joined the “resistance.” aligning themselves with Democrats against Trump.
News networks aligned against Trump after the 2016 presidential election where Trump beat the odds, all the predictions from major news networks and newspapers that Hillary would win election. Trump battled the heavily biased press in 2016, becoming even more vicious after he won the Nov. 4, 2016 election. Major news networks and newspapers were thoroughly embarrassed after Trump’s victory, vowing to join the resistance to remove Trump from office one way or another. Joining the Democrat and media resistance against Trump is 71-year-old former National Security Adviser John Bolton, one of the principle architects of former President George W. Bush’s Iraq War. Mainstream media despised Bolton up till he was fired by Trump Sept 10, 2019. Suddenly, Bolton’s become the media and Democrats’ new hero now that he’s turned against Trump.
Bolton’s new book “The Room Where It Happened,” chronicles Bolton’s account of how Trump violated every ethical principle known to man, yet when he worked for Trump he said nothing. Trump’s beef with Bolton involved his constant Neocon propensity to engage the U.S. military in every conflict from Palestine to North Korea. Trump gave Bolton the National Security job after a falling out with 58-year-old H.R. McMaster April 9, 2018. Bolton seemed like the logical choice, although he and Trump differed on the role of the U.S. military, especially in the Middle East. Trump campaigned on a promise to end wasteful Mideast wars, becoming a big critic of the Iraq War. Trump antagonized the Bush family in the 2016 campaign voicing his opposition to the Iraq War and wasting U.S. blood-and-treasure on policing the world. Bolton thought he knew best until he butted heads with Trump.
What’s so utterly disingenuous is Democrats and the media’s new love for Bolton, now that his new book slams Trump for just about everything. Bolton says Democrats blew it with their impeachment trial, when Trump should have been impeached for far more egregious crimes, including underhanded deal-making with North Korea’s 36-year-old dictator Kim Jong-un and 67-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin. Bolton contends Trump approved with China’s 67-year-old President Xi Jinping the use of concentration camps for China’s Muslim Uiughur population. ”There wasn’t any guiding principle that I was able to discern other than what’s good for Donald Trump’s reelection,” Bolton told ABC News Martha Raddatz. Raddatz was given the green light from Goldston to, like Jimmy Kimmel, to go after Trump. Raddatz wouldn’t give Bolton the time of day until now.
Trump’s overarching principle is to avoid wasteful military adventures like the Iraq War, or, more recently, former President Barack Obama’s eight-year proxy war against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Backed by Bolton, the Syrian proxy war killed more that 450 thousand Syrians, displacing 12 million refugees to Turkey and Europe. Trump has no “principles” unlike Bolton who backed the Iraq War and Syrian proxy war costing the U.S. Treasury trillions of dollars. Under Goldston, ABC’s all in milking Bolton’s propaganda for all its worth to help damage Trump’s credibility heading into the 2020 presidential election. If Bolton had his way with Iran and North Korea, the U.S. would be in a nuclear war. Bolton has a lot of nerve questioning Trump’s “principles” when he’s a known warmonger. ABC News should be ashamed of itself exploiting a has-been like Bolton to get back at Trump.
