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The Washington Post has systematically altered its editorial policies to favor the actions and policies of Donald Trump. Now there are additional signs that its news division is pulling punches in order to favor the president. In an Oval Office session with the press last week, Trump was unaware that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had summoned hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals to Washington on short notice and without any reason for the order. When Trump was asked about the meeting, he clearly was unaware of Hegseth’s order and tried to cover himself by saying that it was a “good idea for the secretary to be meeting with foreign general officers.” There were no foreign officers involved in Hegseth’s order, of course, and Vice President J.D. Vance immediately jumped in to downplay the meeting, and change the subject. The Post ignored Trump’s ignorance.

The same day, the Post, in two op-eds, gave false credit to Trump for standing up to President Vladimir Putin on Russia’s war with Ukraine. Marc Thiessen, a right-wing polemicist, concluded that Putin “will regret treating Trump with such contempt,” and said that “Trump won’t back down in the face of Putin’s escalation.” Thiessen ignored the fact that Trump and Vance had sandbagged Ukrainian President Zelensky in the White House in February, and that Trump ever since has been washing his hands of the war that he promised to end in 24 hours. More ominously, he ignored the fact that Trump’s wavering and........

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