Posted on 01/23/2025 6:16:37 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
One of the Washington Post’s longest tenured editors denounced the paper in stark terms on Wednesday night, declaring that it has “utterly lost its soul” after publishing an op-ed drawing false equivalence between pardons issued by Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
“The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden’s questionable pardons with Trump’s outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable,” David Maraniss, a 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner who has been with the paper nearly 50 years, wrote on Bluesky. “The newspaper I’ve been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.”
Maraniss didn’t link to the editorial in question, but he appears to be referring to one actually published late Tuesday by Jason Willick, titled “The Biden-Trump pardons show collapsing executive restraint.”
Among its arguments, the op-ed says “it’s debatable which president’s abuse of the pardon power on Monday… was more damaging,” and describes them as “tit-for-tat escalations.”
While it does refer to Trump’s mass-pardons for Jan.6 insurrectionists “indefensible,” it largely treats Biden’s preemptive pardons of people Trump has threatened to persecute with state power as, effectively, morally equivalent.
Maraniss didn’t follow up on the comment, and as of this writing he has not announced he is resigning from the paper. But it’s not the first time he’s called out his employer in such direct terms. In October, after owner Jeff Bezos killed the Washington Post’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris, Maraniss wrote on Twitter, “Once again but this time more than ever I am embarrassed for my newspaper. The decision in this of all years to not endorse when democracy is on the line is contemptible.”
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He’s mad that his paper dared critize “his team” Standard issue brain dead Democrat bot.
Pssst....it NEVER HAD A SOUL TO LOSE!
It’s incredible this guy still has a job.
Most MSM newspapers no longer simply report the news and let the reader interpret the news. Instead, they’ve turned into a club newsletter where the tell the reader what to think. They have lost both their soul and their professional obligation to the reader.
Somehow Maraniss doesn’t find Senile’s pardons of two cop killers, a freak who murdered a mom and her 8 year old son bc they were witnesses, a judge who took payoffs to send troubled children to for profit centers, or the killer of two FBI agents to be nearly the order of magnitude of J6 defendants who walked into the Capitol at the invitation of the police? This clown is a prime exhibit of what is so wrong about the Deep State and its sycophantic media.
The authorities in DC should check his basement.
A visit from the new Department of Thuggee would sort this fellow out.
Oh, by the bye, David Maraniss - Happy Trumpmas! :)
Biden pardoned criminals and traitors. President Trump pardoned political prisoners.
So yes, they don’t equate
OK, let’s say somebody shoved a copper and broke a window. How many years in prison should they get? How many years of solitary confinement, being transferred to a different prison every three or four months, solitary confinement, Notes for their lawyer confiscated, meetings with her lawyer for bidden for weeks or months at a time, and all in a filthy racist DC prison. How long should they get for that?
I submit that for years is more than enough
The J6 protesters were any of them held without trial?
The truth is the opposite of what these scumbags say.
Cons never give up on the con.
“ Trump.
“The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden’s questionable pardons with Trump’s outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable,” David Maraniss, a 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner who has been with the paper nearly 50 years, wrote on Bluesky.”
I think I see the problem. They do realize that Trump won because Americans are sick of the lefts whining and childish behavior? David is why the grownups took the cars keys back.
jake lang
Is he the only one?
Held how long?
Trump promised to pardon the “hostages” in the D.C. jail as he ran for office and kept his word when elected. Biden promised to not pardon his son as President but reneged with 15 minutes left in his Presidency pardoning his whole corrupt family. He lied...again.
Biden issued a pardon, but that does mean we can’t have the trial and sentencing.
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