Donald Trump enables Nazi sympathizers- he is an evil creature not qualified to lead - declared bankruptcy six times!

Echo opinion by David Mastio published by Kansas.com in The Witchita Eagle newspaper:

This week, it became clear that the sickness among Republicans and conservatives who have been enthralled by Donald Trump is not going to end when he loses the presidential election. The disease will continue its course. Indeed, it is possible things will get worse. This week, Tucker Carlson, a man who had a prime-time speaking slot at the Republican Convention where he sat next to Trump, invited Nazi sympathizer Darryl Cooper onto his streaming show and into the lives of millions of his fans to rehabilitate Adolf Hitler as a spurned peacemaker who was pushed into Jewish genocide by a war-mongering Winston Churchill. This is insane.

Carlson is bringing his fascist apologia show to T-Mobile Center in Kansas City. Some people are paying more than $100 to get close. The next day, Carlson will be speaking before thousands more in Wichita at InTrust Bank Arena. I don’t think this is what T-Mobile and InTrust had in mind when they paid for naming rights to these venues. Carlson is no fringe figure. As a Fox News commentator, he had an audience of millions five nights a week. When he became too extreme for Fox to stomach, millions followed him to his internet platforms where his commentary and interviews have only grown in popularity. His work has been shared by billionaire X social network owner Elon Musk. Similarly, the guests who will be sharing the stage for his two shows, Megyn Kelly, a defrocked journalist, and Charlie Kirk, head of conservative group Turning Point USA, have millions of their own followers. Locally, Pete Mundo of KCMO has interviewed Carlson on his show.

Right now it is unclear if this descent into shilling for a long-dead dictator 💀responsible for the deaths of some 20 million people is enough to get Kelly, Kirk and Mundo to back away. 

Shilling for dictators is a growing pastime for those in what remains of conservative media if this week’s other news is any indication. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York indicted two employees of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s propaganda organization for funneling $10 million to a Tennessee firm, called Tenet Media, to pay conservative influencers Benny Johnson, Tim Pool and Dave Rubin — also with their own millions of followers — to spew Kremlin propaganda to credulous conservatives skeptical of U.S. involvement in the Ukraine war. 

A commentator for Blaze Media, a site co-founded by conservative commentators Glenn Beck and Mark Levin, was fired by that organization for her involvement in the scheme. Johnson, Pool and Rubin claim to be victims in this fiasco that was part of a larger Russian effort to influence the 2024, elections in favor of Trump. 

As of now, they are unindicted, so it may be true that they were unwitting tools or, maybe more accurately, fools👺👹 for Putin.

Fools for evil Putin

But, let me tell you why Johnson, the worst among the three, is willing to take millions from unknown benefactors: He has no other choice because he is unemployable. The serial plagiarist has been fired over and over again for his shady dealings.

It is not fair to say that all conservative media have been overtaken by edge-lord fascism fluffing. National Review, The Washington Free Beacon and The Dispatch, among others, provide solid reporting, untainted by Russian boodle, and commentary by writers unimpressed with Trump and his acolytes. 

But, unfortunately, millions of Americans are reading, listening and viewing “news” that appears to be from a conservative perspective but is untethered to reality by (junk❗) “journalists” who are willing to defend whatever garbage💩 behavior or half-truth is convenient that day.

As long as that is the case, Trump’s legacy😢 will be with us. 

Writer David Mastio is a former editor and columnist for USA Today, is a regional editor for The Center Square and a regular Star opinion correspondent.