The polls indicate that today
between 60 and 74 percent of the American people want President Trump
to release his tax returns, including 49 percent of his own supporters. A few days later, Stephen Bannon, the White House strategist, said
the media should ``keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.''
Ignoring that democracy is impossible without a free press, Bannon
called the media the ``opposition party . . . that [does not]
understand this country.''
There is an even more disturbing aspect to this. Besides denigrating
the press, candidate and now President Trump has attacked Muslims, the
CIA, Mexico, Meryl Streep, the cast of ``Hamilton,'' Congressman John
Lewis, politicians, undocumented migrants, or whoever else he thinks of
at any particular moment, for meddling in the election or for any other
reason, with one glaring exception: Vladimir Putin, one of the world's
worst gangsters. Despite credible evidence that the Russian Government, at Putin's
direction, actively sought to sway the outcome of the U.S. election in
favor of Donald Trump, candidate and now President Trump has repeatedly
expressed admiration for Mr. Putin.
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