The Trump campaign was clearly taken aback by the barrage of criticism, sending out an email Thursday denying that Trump's comment about the US officer corps being "reduced to rubble" and the need to rely on "different generals" meant a sweeping purge of the Pentagon. "Mr. Trump never said he'd fire generals," the campaign told Politico.com. "He said he'd have different generals advising him."
But the media campaign intensified after Trump gave an interview to former CNN talk show host Larry King, which he said was for King's podcast, but which was broadcast on the American subsidiary of the state-supported Russian television network RT.
The leading organs of the capitalist press were vituperative against Trump. The New York Times published a news analysis -- not an editorial, despite the tone -- with the following lead paragraph: "Donald J. Trump's campaign on Thursday reaffirmed its extraordinary embrace of Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, signaling a preference for the leadership of an authoritarian adversary over that of America's own president, despite a cascade of criticism from Democrats and expressions of discomfort among Republicans."
The Washington Post, in an editorial on the Commander-in-Chief Forum, declared, "Most troubling of all was Mr. Trump's renewed endorsement for Vladimir Putin, in spite of the mounting evidence that the Russian government is attempting to directly interfere in the US election campaign. Confronted with a litany of Mr. Putin's offenses, including the military actions in Ukraine and Syria and the computer hack of the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Trump responded, 'Do you want me to start naming some of the things that President Obama does at the same time?' -- as if there were equivalent U.S. actions."
Actually, as the Post editors well know, the United States has left all other countries in the dust when it comes to military aggression and political subversion. Putin's offenses against international law are small potatoes compared to the worldwide depredations of American imperialism. Trump, of course, is not really opposed to such methods and, if elected, would pursue them just as aggressively as Obama and Clinton.
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