Written by the Agence France Press [AFP] for U.S. consumption, the liberal press has hit 77-year-old former President Donald Trump with both barrels, accusing him of racist, xenophobic rhetoric. Citing Trump’s campaign rhetoric, AFP says Trump called for the execution 65-year-old former Joint Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Miley, who routinely blasts Trump because he disagrees with the U.S. campaign in Ukraine battling the Russian Federation. Citing comments about illegal immigrants, the AFP accuses Trump uses the same racist speech used by the Naxis against Jews in the years before the Holocaust. AFK and other leftist foreign publications don’t understand the problems Trump tried to fix on the U.S.-Mexico border. President Joe Biden, 80, campaigned against Trump in 2020 telling the public that the border wall was cruel-and-unusual punishment. Biden now authorizes building out Trump’s border wall.
Going after Trump for campaign rhetoric is a violation of Trump’s First Amendment rights to speak his mind to any groups as long as he doesn’t directly advocate violence. “Nobody has an idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons, we know they come from mental institutions, insane asylums, we know they’re terrorists,” Trump told conservatives news site National Pulse. How the AFP uses statements to conservative news sites as proof of Trump’s racist rhetoric is outrageous? It’s one thing for a foreign press to cover U.S. news, still another to join a political campaign against a GOP presidential candidate. “Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It’s a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country,” Trump said, referring to dangers posed by indiscriminate immigration.
How the AFP takes a serious border issue and turns it into racist rhetoric is yet the latest example of how the U.S. and foreign press have joined the Democrat political machine against the Republican Party. Biden administration officials have only recently turned their attention to the border because it’s hurting Biden’s low approval ratings. Now that the 2024 gets in focus, Biden authorizing the completion of more of Trump’s border wall, routinely condemned by the press to attack Trump politically. When it comes to the unthinkable Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, Biden no longer talks about Palestinian rights but supports Israel’s right to defend itself against terrorism. AFB sites rhetorical statements made seven years ago about Trump when Black Lives Matter was burning down U.S. cities over George Floyd’s death. Trump said police should get tough with violent protesters.
Allowing a foreign news agency to join the Democrat Party’s 2024 election campaign goes beyond anything protected under the First Amendment. No credentialed news organization should operate in the United States without disclaimers that they back the Democrat Party’s 2024 campaign to reelect Biden. Publishing stories about Trump’s racism and xenophobia breaches every known journalistic standard of not disclosing political bias. AFP likes to blame Trump for the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol “insurrection,” concluding that Trump incited the riots by telling supporters he was cheated by Democrats out of the 2020 election. Trump had every right to express his opinions about what happened in 2020, without domestic or foreign news organizations accusing him of incitement. Special Counsel Jack Smith will have a tough time proving that Trump planned and orchestrate the Jan. 6 riots.
Foreign news organizations have aright to report news but not to join Democrat political organizations in trying to link Trump to neo-Nazi groups who may have joined illegal protests and the Capitol or elsewhere. Government prosecutors have thrown the book at the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, meting out long jail sentences for vandalism and malicious mischief. Smith knows the Trump never told anyone in any speech to go out and vandalize the Capitol. AFP cites Jan. 6 protester saying they thought they were following Trump’s orders. Anyone facing prosecution can blame anyone but ultimately, under the American rule of law, they must pay the price. So when AFP reports that Trump approved the Jan. 6 mayhem, it’s left-wing slander against the former President. Interfering in the 2024 election, foreign news organizations must be put on notice that they have no right to join political campaigns.
Watching events unfold in Israel, foreign news organizations are slow to condemn the neo-Nazi executions and beheadings of innocent civilians. Talking about Palestinian rights as if they’re any different than Nazis who had every excuse under the sun to massacre Europe’s Jewish population. Whether it’s in foreign or domestic newspapers, Biden made clear today in remarks that Hamas terrorism can never be justified because of political excuses. Whatever foreign groups condemn Trump’s rhetoric but no the terrorist slaughter of Israeli citizens and others, Hamas made no distinction of who they massacred on Oct. 7 and Oct. 8. Foreign news groups like AFP should be ashamed going after Trump but not condemning the slaughter of innocent civilians regardless of the political excuses. AFP needs to look carefully at how its newsroom has been hijacked by Democrat operatives.
About the Author
Jobn M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
