Why can't corporate media get Trump's trail of destruction right?
President Donald Trump just fired Kim Sajet, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, and despite this being the umpteenth time he’s fired someone without the authority to do so, corporate media has still given him a pass.
Take the Washington Post, for example. Right in the subhead it says, “It was unclear if Trump can dismiss Smithsonian leaders.”
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And, of course, we can’t forget about The New York Times, which said, “It was unclear if the president had legal grounds to fire the director, experts said, because the National Portrait Gallery is part of the Smithsonian Institution, which is independent of the federal government despite receiving nearly two-thirds of its budget from Congress.”
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I guess they’d have to visit the Smithsonian’s website itself to learn about the institution’s clearly independent legal history.
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