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Traditional Mainstream Media — Stop Covering Trump as Normal, He’s not

Eric Foster
4 min readJun 12, 2020

I’m writing to encourage and plead with you, the Non Conservative Mainstream Media, to change your approach to questioning Donald Trump, his administration, GOP Congressional members, GOP State and County elected officials & the Conservative Mainstream Media complex (Fox, OANN, Sinclair, Breitbart, NewsMax, Washington Times & Examiner, American Thinker, PJ Media, New York Post, CBN, etc.). They don’t operate in the “normal” paradigm that you have communicated with previous administration and officials. As a group, you let him & his team lie without challenge, use you as human “choir” props when he makes his “you all know this”, “you see what I see” or “everyone, including you all agree” statements. You must interrupt the human prop device immediately and say no. You also have to stop repeating his lie phrases as a part of debunking the lie. The mnemonic device of repeating his 50 or so key phrases helps add to the memory muscle and validation signatures with Trump Americans and those who are susceptible to his deception. You let him say them without immediate challenge, fact check or calling it a lie, then move to the next question, allowing the lie to appear to be true or fact. Back each other and don’t let him or his team escape their words.

Trump spends a significant amount of time attacking Democrats, 3rd party voters, Non-White immigrants, Americans of Color, our foreign allies, people that don’t support him and the non-Conservative Mainstream Media outlets. He & the GOP claim daily…

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Eric Foster
Eric Foster

Written by Eric Foster

I'm a Father, 10th generation American (family roots to South Carolina, 1725 roughly), Political, Public Policy, Economic Theory & Data Analytics SME.

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