Yes: Trump is a man of JFK’s cloth, but that’s not all. With Trump, you get a presidential two-fer. “We are reminded of another presidential candidate who was derided for being ‘just an actor’ and for proposing a vision for a stronger America,” the Observer wrote. “Today, many people forget what propelled Ronald Reagan into the White House in 1980.”
The rest of the piece leaned into the Reagan angle, hard: “Reagan asked Americans: Are you better off than you were four years ago? Today, Donald Trump is asking a similar question.”
“In 1980 Ronald Reagan said, ‘The time is now for strong leadership,’ and by 1984 was able to declare, ‘It is morning again in America,'” the endorsement concluded. “Today, Donald Trump says it is time to make America great again. We agree.”
Last year, International Business Times attempted to ask Observer editor Ken Kurson about the paper’s approach toward covering the 2016 election given its connection to Trump himself.
“Your greasy trolling for Trump clicks by asking other journalists to comment on how the Observer does or does not cover Trump is exactly the reason I’m reluctant to cover Trump more than necessary,” Kurson replied.
Kurson accused IBT of inventing quotes (we did not) and ended up writing an entire article attacking IBT for attempting to dig up “dirt” on the relationship.
As it happens, over the last few weeks, it came out that not only did Kurson’s boss Jared Kushner help draft Trump’s speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, but Kurson himself proofread the speech. Kurson did not respond for comment at the time and these facts remain undisclosed anywhere on the Observer’s website, though after the Huffinton Post reported on the speechwriting issue, the paper announced it was “re-visiting” its policy on Trump and imposing a ban on any further collaboration.
At the time, Kurson dismissed the critics. “It’s a complicated world and I don’t intend to let the eleven people who have appointed themselves the journalist police tell me, at age 47, how to behave or to whom I’m allowed to speak.”
With the Observer’s formal endorsement of it’s publisher’s father-in-law, Donald Trump, the world just became a little less complicated.
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