New York Post to Donald Trump: Stop the Madness

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The New York Post, in an editorial that received the front page of giant-type treatment on Monday, told Trump that he must give up his baseless struggle to overthrow the result of the presidential election.

“Mr. President … STOP THE BOX,” can be read on the front page of the tabloid, famous for its extravagant headlines. “You lost the election; here’s how to save your legacy.”

“Mr. President, it’s time to end this dark farce,” the Post’s editorial board wrote. “You are encouraging an anti-democratic coup.”

The Post publisher, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (NWS), is not the first time an informative property of Murdoch has moved away from Trump and his refusal to grant the election. The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board on November 6 urged Trump to concede once he was declared a loser (most other media organizations called elections the next day and the polling station voted for the president). elected Joe Biden on December 14). The newspaper argued that Trump’s legacy would be diminished if his final act was “a bitter refusal to accept a legitimate defeat.”

Fox News, owned by Fox Corp. of Murdoch, has acknowledged that Biden is the president-elect despite defending his hosts in the first hour of Trump’s refusal to concede.

And in the Post itself, Murdoch’s senior lieutenant, Col Allan, confirmed that he would retire from the newspaper in 2021. Allan was instrumental in pushing the Post in a pro-Trump direction. Last summer, for example, CNN reported that Allan ordered the removal of a story about a report of Trump’s sexual assault.

But the new editorial was notable for its dismissal in clear words of Trump’s disinformation campaign about the election result and the multilateral and continued effort to stay in power.

The Post criticized Trump for undermining election results long after his legal team found nothing to prove widespread electoral fraud that would have tipped the scales in Biden’s favor. The newspaper called Trump’s election lawyer Sidney Powell “crazy,” and also said that the pardon of Trump’s former NSA director Michael Flynn was treacherous for his suggestion that Trump impose the law. martial.

“We understand, Mr President, that you are angry that you have lost. But to continue on this path is ruinous. We offer this as a newspaper that supported you and supported you: the stage for a future return, you must channel your fury towards something more productive “.

The editorial insisted that Trump use his remaining days in office to fight for Republicans to win both Senate elections in Georgia, for Democrats not to gain control of both houses of the legislature. Beyond preventing Democrats from enacting laws and regulations that Republicans hate, the Post noted that a Democratic Senate could threaten the president’s legacy. Republicans would lick their wounds and be less likely to listen to Trump, the Post argued.

“Democrats will try to eliminate you as a one-term aberration, and frankly help them do that,” the editorial board wrote. “King Lear of Mar-a-Lago, disputing the corruption of the world.”

The Post echoed the concerns of Democrats and Republicans that a lame duck president Trump, with no ties to any consequences and no influence of shame, poses a danger to the future of the United States. The editorial board warned Trump against this approach, noting that he still has something to fight for: as Americans remember him.

“If you insist on spending the last few days in office threatening to burn everything, that will be remembered. Not as a revolutionary, but as an anarchist who supports the party.”

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