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Trump really digressing

To the editor:

Journalism 101: Don’t mess with the press.

Opinionators and analysts are just busy-bodies who feed off the hard work of journalists.

President Trump is digressing rapidly without help from an inept transition team that seems to be babying him instead of calling time out and making him sit in a corner and promise to stop his nightmarish tweets.

Talk radio and cable TV are driven by ratings, and opinionators, agitators and analysts are not journalists.

How did America go from the shining light on the hill to the outhouse on the hill in a matter of Trump’s first 60 days in office?

He’s demeaning the FBI and intelligence agency, which serve and protect the republic, and further accusing the press of being the enemy of the people.

Don’t mess with the press, Mr. President. Some journalist doing his or her diligent duties will search and find out what ties someone on your campaign or your surrogates had with Russia, just as Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward brought down Nixon’s Watergate.

Be careful with your tweets –the wrong tweet in the middle of the morning will lead them to your Waterloo and bring disaster to your presidency.

Watching Fox News softballing your presidency might comfort you, but watching MSNBC and CNN hardballing it will bury you.

Steve Kopa

Weirton

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