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NYT questions Trump’s qualification as children’s role model

NYT questions Trump’s qualification as children’s role model

Posted September. 27, 2016 07:38,   

Updated September. 27, 2016 07:58

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The New York Times, which had officially endorsed Hillary Clinton for the next president of the United States on Saturday, wrote an editorial the following day titled, “Why Donald Trump Should Not Be President,” criticizing the candidate’s blustered character.

Trump is a financial wizard. He has a record rife with bankruptcies and has been opaque about his businesses operations represented by his refusal to disclose his tax returns. His questionable global investments in Russia could present conflicts of interest as president. He notably tapped 258,000 dollars in donors’ money from his charitable foundation to settle lawsuits

Trump is also a straight talker who tells it like it is. He declares that he has a plan to soundly defeat the Islamic State, but won’t reveal it. He has also zig zagged regarding his pledge to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. NBC News has tabulated that Mr. Trump has made 117 distinct policy shifts on 20 major issues since his campaign began.

He is an expert negotiator. Trump's plan for cutting the national debt may have been imported from his debt-steeped real estate world, but it would undermine faith in the government and the stability of global financial markets. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell privately called Trump “an international pariah” for losing faith in the global community by offending China and other allies.

He is a change agent. There can be little doubt of that, but the direction of change is in question. Starting a series of trade wars is a recipe for recession, and cutting taxes for the wealthy will blow a hole in the deficit. He has also said that he will get rid of the new national health insurance system that millions now depend on, cancel the Paris climate agreement on global warming, return to the use of waterboarding, and reconsider Japan’s commitment not to develop nuclear weapons.

“Voters attracted by the force of the Trump personality should pause and take note of the precise qualities he exudes as an audaciously different politician: bluster, savage mockery of those who challenge him, degrading comments about women, mendacity, crude generalizations about nations and religions," the New York Times said. "Our presidents are role models for generations of our children. Is this the example we want for them?”



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