So that’s it?
Sometimes you have to give credit where it’s due. Right now the mainstream political media is doing a pretty honest job. It’s accurately covering Kamala Harris’ momentum. It’s accurately covering the reality that Trump now comes across as old and having lost a step. And it’s accurately covering the trouble that JD Vance keeps creating for himself and Trump. But there’s one thing that still isn’t being covered correctly, and I think it’s important.
More than two weeks ago, Donald Trump was wounded in an assassination attempt. Since that time he’s provided no legitimate information on his medical condition. He keeps insisting his ear got hit by a bullet instead of glass, but he hasn’t backed that up with anything. He wore a giant bandage over his ear when it was politically convenient during his convention, but then immediately ditched the bandage, revealing no lasting ear injury and thus no need for the bandage to begin with. And since no legitimate medical information has been provided, there’s no way to know for instance whether bullet fragments or glass fragments entered his brain.
The opportunistic lack of transparency on Trump’s part is to be expected. But Trump’s refusal to level with the American people about the extent of his injuries is a major scandal. And thus far the media has done nothing about it.
If the media were calling out Trump for his lack of transparency about his injuries, he’d have to let a legitimate doctor examine him just to make the controversy go away. But the media is giving Trump a free pass on this scandal, so he gets to spin it any way he wants. And that’s not right.
