Dan Rather Blasts Trump For Undermining ‘Institutions Of Our Democracy’
Legendary CBS News journalist Dan Rather continues to be one of the most vocal and prominent critics of Donald Trump and Friday he continued that criticism.
Rather blasted Trump for having a “willful disregard for the rule of law.” “I have seen weeks of far greater darkness, of war, and death, and economic despair,” Rather wrote in a Facebook post. “I have seen weeks of more confusion and uncertainty.”
“But I have never seen a week where a president of our nation has behaved with such a cavalier disregard for the norms and institutions of our democracy.”
Rather noted the obvious comparisons to Richard Nixon however to Rather, Trump seems worse.
“The comparisons with Richard Nixon are plentiful these days, but even he did not seem so untethered from our basic governance,” he wrote. “And I have never seen so many members of a political party rally around incompetence, intemperance, and inanity.”
But for Rather, the vocal opposition of the resistance that has emerged against Trump is “a clash for the values of our nation.”
“I hear the voices of those who demand that this subversion of our national ideals shall not stand,” he wrote. “I have covered social movement of the past, and never have seen one where so much power and numbers lie on the side of the opposition.”
Here is Rather’s full post:
