Learning the processes to sue and protect the rights of the press will ensure that publications are ready to fight back. President or not, the Trump team members that help him have no right to violate the laws that apply to all American citizens, as Steve Bannon, Paul Manafort, Alan Weussman, and Michael Cohen among others, learned as they wound up behind bars. They learned the hard way. Even if the Supreme Court is chicken on federal criminal laws against Trump, state and civil laws and defamation suits apply.
The media cannot keep treating everything that Trump says as news. Instead of bashing him for misinformation, journalists should explain to the American people and provide the full truth.
Robert Weiner was a spokesman in the Clinton and George W. Bush White Houses. He was communications director for 4-Star Gen. Barry McCaffrey, Cong. Conyers (as spokesman for the House Gov Ops and Oversight Committee), Charles Rangel, senior staff for Claude Pepper, Ed Koch, and political aide to Ted Kennedy.
Kailynn Bannon is a policy analyst, research coordinator and Op-Ed writer at Robert Weiner Associates and Solutions for Change. She was the opinions editor and staff writer for The Southern, the Florida Southern College newspaper.
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