On March 16, Trump told a crowd in Dayton, Ohio, that President Biden’s re-election would result in a “bloodbath” for the U.S. auto industry.
Trump’s phrasing was hyperbolic, but even Merriam-Webster includes "major economic disaster" as a secondary meaning of "bloodbath."
That didn’t matter to Trump’s political opponents. Adams writes that the “Biden campaign, working fist-in-glove with the press, responded at once, accusing the presumptive Republican nominee of threatening a literal massacre should he be denied the White House a second time.”
Adams says that many in the media seem not to have learned from 2016, when “flooding the airwaves with made-up scandals only” emboldened Trump and his followers and reinforced the Trump narrative that the media was “the enemy of the people” spouting “fake news.”
If Donald Trump manages to recapture the White House, Adams writes, “it will be because of his opponents’ overwhelming incompetence, dishonesty and short-sightedness.”
“And featuring prominently among those ‘opponents’ are many members of the news media.”
Read the op-ed at TheHill.com.
