Good Read -'The Con's' Presidency Is Built Upon Double Standards A record of falsehoods and

misdeeds that never would have been countenanced before.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-03/trump-s-presidency-is-built-upon-double-standards
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Donald Trump and his always enabling press secretary Sarah Sanders charged there was a "double standard" when a television network apologized for a racist comment made about a top aide to Barack Obama but didn't apologize to the current president for its critical remarks about him.

This was sheer narcissism. There was no cause for an apology to Trump. But a double standard does exist in the political dialogue and media coverage. Sometimes it works against Trump. But more often, it works to his advantage. Let's look at how this works.

Hypothetically, after the 2012 attack in Benghazi where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed, suppose that Obama, amid conflicting reports on what happened, called the ambassador's family and said, "This is what he signed up for." That's what Trump did last year when four American special-forces soldiers were killed in Niger by terrorists. He initially denied making the comment, which then was confirmed by one soldier's widow and by a congresswoman who was on the call. Trump also falsely charged that Obama never contacted families of slain veterans.

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