ABC News Writes Trump's Chicago Invasion Press Release For Him
Thirty-four paragraphs of violence porn, one mention of plummeting crime rates. This is how authoritarian moves get normalized.
ABC News just handed Donald Trump exactly what he wanted: a crime panic narrative that makes his threat to send federal troops to Chicago seem reasonable, even necessary.
On Tuesday, ABC published a piece by Bill Hutchinson that opened with “At least 58 people have been shot, eight fatally, across Chicago over Labor Day weekend.” The article then spent t…
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