Morning Digest: Trump wants this GOP congressman gone—so he's bear-hugging Trump
Trump’s Sunday social media post was as vile as they come, even for him: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.” But as horrifying as it was, I was even more appalled at the knee-jerk instinct by much of the traditional media to sanewash Trump’s rant. One of the most egregious offenders was the Associated Press. Get a load of how far they bent over backward to whitewash what Trump said: In a social media post, Trump vowed to hit Iran’s power plants and bridges and said the country would be “living in Hell” if the Strait of Hormuz, crucial for global trade, isn’t opened by Tuesday. He ended with “Praise be to Allah.” No “Fuckin’ Strait,” no “crazy bastards”—these they sanitized by describing his post as “expletive-laden.” Other outlets sanded down the profanity with asterisks. And virtually no one included these phrases in their headlines. I’ve got a word for all this: bullshit. There is nothin...