General
Gee, Leigh. Donald Trump is Robert Mugabe?
I’m old enough to remember when journalists gave us the news and we added our own prejudice.
These days journalists report everything through the sieve of their own personal bias, so that what we ought to think about events is baked into the news.
Just ask ABC 7.30 host Leigh Sales. She’ll tell you.
With US President Donald Trump refusing to concede election defeat, Sales tweeted: “Robert Mugabe keeps coming to mind.”
The most obvious problem with Sale’s in-depth, non-partisan analysis is that the Zimbabwean dictator, unlike Trump, never cried about rigged elections. That’s because Mugabe was the one rigging the elections.
Mugabe won his nation’s 2013 election after reportedly receiving more than 350,000 votes…
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