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Last week, the lead article headline on The Washington Post’s front page proclaimed, “A small group of U.S. national security officials has been discreetly advising state governments and congressional lawmakers on how to prepare for the possibility that the Trump administration will attempt to interfere in November’s midterm elections.” The article is worth reading, although not for its advertised message.
It would be hard to find a clearer example of media bias in action. Fourteen days before the 2026 midterm elections, the unabashedly left-leaning Washington Post pitches a news piece masquerading as shocking new information about the coming elections — but that is actually just a warmed-over rehash of a tired old partisan hit piece, serving no objective other than last-minute voter influence.
Based on both the Post article headline and its carefully worded content, the apparent message conveyed is: Big news, folks! Your worries that Donald Trump will either obstruct the voting or refuse to abide by the election’s outcome turn out to be valid — our own government is anticipating that he will do so and is moving aggressively to thwart his attempts to subvert our democracy.
But actually, it doesn’t say that. Read it again, carefully. The article is riddled with innuendo, head fakes, and irrelevant sidelines. Let’s count the ways.
The core of the Post article is the revelation that a group of “government officials,” increasingly concerned about potential election interference by the president and his minions, has been actively consulting with officials of 10 states who share their fears, “including governors, election officials and members of the House and Senate of both parties,” to help in finding ways to thwart such interference.
The group raising the warning flag evidently comprises “about 10” unnamed members of either current or previous administrations.
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