If anyone gets a thank-you note from President Biden for helping get him out of a jam in recent days, it should probably be former President Donald J. Trump.
Just when Mr. Biden was swamped by unwelcome questions about his age, his predecessor and challenger stepped in, rescuing him with an ill-timed diatribe vowing to “encourage” Russia to attack NATO allies that do not spend enough on their militaries.
The stunner from Mr. Trump over the weekend not only drew attention away from the president’s memory problems, as detailed in a special counsel report, but also provided a convenient way for Mr. Biden’s defenders to reframe the issue: Yes, they could now say, the incumbent may be an old man who sometimes forgets things, but his challenger is both aging and dangerously reckless.
The New York Times just couldn’t resist turning Trump doing a dangerous and stupid thing into another excuse to pump the Biden-age story. Trump has evidenced the same and worse mental issues and the esteemed “liberal” press would never in a million years spend multiple stories on multiple days talking about it.
The NYT has a bombshell expose every once in a while, but their standing impact on the world is whitewashing conservative propaganda so they can show they’re not partisan.
They have such terminal liberal brain. The average American does not give a shit about NATO, and if they have any opinion about it, they probably accepted Trump’s framing that somehow US taxpayers are paying for the whole thing (as opposed to it basically being a very useful framework to make sure all of Europe is basically buying American weapons).
It’s a newspapers job to explain shit like NATO to people who choose not to read