The Gantt Report
By Lucius Gantt
Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and former President Donald Trump are in the same boat. Right-wing Zionist Netanyahu wants to remain a “warlord” president and Trump seeks a second term in the White House because they both want “stay out of jail” cards!
Netanyahu has been charged with fraud, breach of trust, bribery, receiving bribes, and acting in a conflict of interest while serving as Minister of Communications.
Trump’s law violations and crimes are too numerous for this column, but you know he’s a convicted felon, fraudster, scammer, harasser, and liar.
One wants to remain in office and the other wants to win an election in November to prevent being locked up in cell block D.
Trump appears desperate. He knows and feels Vice President Kamala Harris has a campaign on the come-up while the Trump campaign is on the down-low, so to speak.
Netanyahu is using US weapons to kill Palestinians. I think there is an American law that prohibits countries that have been accused of war crimes from receiving and using US arms and weapons against civilians.
Why President Joe Biden, Congressional Democrats, and Republicans can’t, or won’t, stop Israel from using American weapons to bomb churches, schools, roads, and housing for Palestinian civilians, I don’t know.
If you don’t know, Jesus was a Palestinian, according to the Bible, if that matters to you.
Now, the world knows Trump lies a lot and Kamala is making Trump lie much more.
Recently, every time a reporter or newsman has put a microphone in front of Trump, he has said whatever he thinks the reporters want to hear.
He will tell a reporter in the morning that a six-month abortion ban is too short of a time and then go on Fox News and say if Florida voters want a six-month abortion ban, it’s OK with him.
American military veterans should be furious at Trump for posing for political videos at America’s most sacred burial ground, the Arlington Cemetery, where soldiers who risked their lives and died serving the United States are buried.
Of course, Trump lied and said he was asked by members of a fallen soldier’s family to visit the grave site of an honored veteran and to take pictures, but Trump’s campaign brought the video cameras and quickly posted pictures of Trump on social media giving a “thumbs up” sign at the veteran’s grave site.
The reporters, newsmen, and media companies that you love seldom fact-check the former President. It seems they prefer to focus on policy changes allegedly made by Vice President Harris.
If newsrooms want to fact-check one, they should fact check all candidates.
The Gantt Report is fair. If a politician is good, he’s good, and if he or she is bad, they’re bad.
TGR readers will tell you, Lucius will throw down on anybody.
I have trained young journalists who have gone on to work at NBC, CBS, NPR, and a variety of local media companies.
My most accomplished student, Reggie Harris, won an Emmy Award and a NABJ “Journalist of the Year” Award for his reporting for NBC in New York.
When asked, “What did you learn from Lucius Gantt”, most of my students would say I told them to “Be fair and get the facts”.
True news reporters should never rubber-stamp what politicians say when they are interviewed by journalists seeking to report the facts.
Respect the truth! Fact-check everybody!
