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Good to see Derek come around. While I personally am not offended or worried about Trump. His personality defects as some see them are no worse than any number of other Presidents and he will be by far one of the most transparent Presidents if elected. He speaks his mind and even if you don’t always agree with what he says or how he says it there is little doubt that he is mostly being straight up. We don’t have to worry that he is giving entirely different speeches behind the scenes to donors. We don’t have to worry that someone is promising him money to alter his positions. The Trump we’ve seen minus the media filter is the Trump we get and I find that refreshing. Politicians are often known as being two faced scum and while Trump the showman is not exactly the same as Trump in private they are absolutely inseparable and they are not the product of some focus group designed to trick the public. Trump is his own man and no matter what the media does will never change that.

As for the media filter if we look back honestly at history JFK was absolutely horrible to women and he committed offenses while President that are at least as great as those of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton and I’m not a Nixon fan. LBJ was even worse. The primary difference of course is the media filter. While with JFK his misdeeds were largely cleansed with his tragic assassination but does anyone think the media would’ve come around to lionize Nixon if he had befallen the same fate as JFK during Watergate? The difference of course between now and then is that then the Press could get away with their white washing and water carrying. Today they are proudly strutting like glam prostitutes their biases. The press is no longer running an escort service but instead down on its knees in times square doing its dirty business and that as Derek expresses should disgust any normal person more than the worst of Trump’s perceived personality defects.