ALL EYES ON OBAMA: Why Is the Media Not Challenging Trump on His Obama Lies? #p2 #tcot

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Why Is the Media Not Challenging Trump on His Obama Lies? #p2 #tcot

http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12547

DEE EVANS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT

I have had it with the likes of Donald Trump maligning President Obama's reputation on a weekly basis and the likes of shows like The View, Good Morning America and Morning Joe constantly letting him get away with it!

If Donald Trump is supposed to be a serious candidate for President of the United States, then why isn't he being treated as such? Why is no one asking him questions about the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or about balancing the U.S. budget or about immigration reform, healthcare, education, financial reform or any of a number of "serious" questions that someone seeking to be the leader of this country should be asked?

Instead so-called "professional" journalists allow Trump to go off on these libelous rants against the President with already debunked lies and no one even tries to challenge him on it or to offer any follow up questions to any of his off the wall statements!

For example, during his recent interview on The View, Trump continued to shout (literally) that President Obama has not presented a birth certificate and how no one knew him or had any photos of him from when he was young. Not one of the women sitting on that couch saw fit to challenge these lies with the facts that the State of Hawaii has released Obama's official birth certificate ...

...and that there are numerous photos of Barack Obama from his youth including a well known photo of him on his high school basketball team in Hawaii.

My main question is when will someone...ANYONE ask Trump any serious Presidential candidate questions - and make him answer them? I have a few that should have been asked already:

1) If you are such a successful businessman, as you say, then can you explain why you had to file bankruptcy 3 times?

2) As a so-called "family values guy", how do you explain being married three times?

3) You have claimed to be a staunch Conservative yet you recently contributed $50,000 to President Obama's former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for his mayoral campaign in Chicago? If the Obama Administration has made such terrible decisions, as you say, then how do you explain giving thousands of dollars to one of the main people who had a hand in crafting most of those decisions?

4) You claimed to have "screwed" (his word) Muammar Gaddafi on a land use deal some time ago in New York City in which you say he paid you an unusually high amount of money for use of some land for a tent. You stated that you took his money but then still did not let him use it. First of all, if that did happen, would that be considered illegal? Secondly, many celebrities have recently given away money that they have received from Gaddafi, where did the money you received from him go? If it went to charity, which one?

5) By law, all Presidential candidates must complete a Financial Disclosure Form before officially running for President. You no doubt have a lot of financial dealings all over the world. If you are serious about being President as you claim, when do you plan to complete your form and disclose information about many of these dealings?

6) You claim that President Obama needs to show his birth certificate (which he has already done along with the State of Hawaii) so might I ask when do you plan to show voters your "original" birth certificate?

If Trump is the serious Presidential candidate that he claims to be, then he should have no problems answering these questions.

The media needs to do their job! American voters expect the media to ask serious questions of these "serious" Presidential candidates and not allow them to demean the President of the United States just for shock value and ratings! If they have criticisms of President Obama's policies and want to question things he's done while in office, that's fair game; but to allow the likes of Donald Trump to use a mainstream media forum to spout unchallenged lies is something that should not stand.

Sources on questions for Trump:

1- http://www.mademan.com/mm/how-many-times-has-donald-trump-filed-bankruptcy.html

http://answers.bloglines.com/Home/how_many_times_has_donald_trump_filed_bankruptcy

http://www.legalzoom.com/legal-headlines/celebrity-lawsuits/how-does-trump-repeatedly-file

2- http://www.mademan.com/mm/how-many-times-has-donald-trump-been-married.html

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_wifes_does_Donald_Trump_have

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_ex-wives_does_Donald_Trump_have

3- http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0211/Donald_Trump_is_so_serious_about_seeking_the_Republican_nomination.html

http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/trump-spielberg-jobs-among-emanuels-big-donors/

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-21/emanuel-raises-10-million-with-help-from-jobs-griffin-geffen.html

4- http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51653.html

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/donald-trump-tells-fox-and-friends-i-screwed-gaddafi/