Recommended: The Media's Hysteria Over Trump Is a Real Problem

Kyle Smith at the New York Post has a good article today, The Media's Hysteria Over Trump Is a Real Problem. Like Smith, I am dismayed and disgusted at the continual heavily biased and at times completely untrue attacks from the media against our new president-elect. No, I didn't vote for him, but 60+ million Americans did, and he won the Electoral College votes needed  to win the presidency. In this country we hold democratic elections, and then accept the results. But apparently not the mainstream media, not this time.

Let's be absolutely clear about this, there are lots of things not to like about Trump, but

a) There is absolutely no evidence in either his actions or his speeches that he is a white supremacist, despite the repeated attacks by the press.  If you don't believe this go read the full transcripts of his speeches, not the cleverly edited excerpts from the press or the blogosphere, but what he actually said, all of it. Did you know, for example, that when he considered running for president in 1999 he wanted Oprah Winfrey as his running mate? Does that sound like a white supremacist?

b) There is absolutely no evidence in either his actions or his speeches that he is anti-Semitic, despite the attacks by some liberal journalists. Again, if you don't believe this, do some serious research, something more than reading Op Ed opinions by anti-Trump journalists. Or just consider that Israel thinks he is one of their strongest supporters, or that his daughter Ivanka is Jewish.  

c) There is absolutely no evidence in either his actions or his speeches that he discriminates against the LGBTQ community, despite the hysterical claims made by some journalists. Again, if you don't believe this, do some serious research. For example, on the NBC "Today" show in April he said that transgender people should be allowed to use whatever bathroom they feel most comfortable with — including at Trump Tower in New York.

d) There is absolutely no evidence in either his actions or his speeches that he is anti-Muslim, despite the hysterical attacks by the media. He certainly is against Islamic jihad terrorists (who isn't?), and he certainly wants tighter vetting for people coming from countries where such terrorists are highly active (not unreasonable), but that does not mean he is biased against all Muslims.

e)  There is absolutely no evidence in either his actions or his speeches that he is anti-immigrant.  He certainly is against illegal immigrants, and in that respect he is exactly like Obama (who has already deported about 2.5 million of them), Bush and Clinton.

Again, there are lots of things to dislike about Trump, but let's get off these malicious attacks, motivated more by sore losing among liberals than by any real facts.