Over the past few months we have been treated to lurid details, including long interviews on CNN, about alleged affairs President Trump had long before he took office. Somehow we are meant to be shocked that the thrice married tycoon, known since the 1970s as a raging playboy and who actually appeared on the cover of Playboy, in fact was, get this, sexually involved with many women, some of whom he apparently paid to stay silent about the affairs.
The promo video embedded in the CNN tweet tells the tale of one of President Kennedy’s several dalliances while he was the president. It was an affair with actress Judith Campbell. Campbell became pregnant by the president in 1963 and had an abortion arranged by Sam Giancana, then the boss of the Chicago Mafia, with whom she also had a sexual relationship (although she claimed only after the affair with JFK). To put it mildly, the circumstances of this and other affairs JFK had while commander and chief make anything Trump has done as president look down right demure.
The difference between the treatments of the two presidents by CNN is the result of a few factors. First, the documentary and news divisions at the network likely work separately, the former with perhaps a less obvious political agenda. But also at work here is the merciful cleansing that time gives some of our heroes from the past. In retrospect, Kennedy was a boyish rogue; in 2018 Trump is a cad and a predator.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/03...ordid-affairs-and-neither-will-donald-trumps/
The promo video embedded in the CNN tweet tells the tale of one of President Kennedy’s several dalliances while he was the president. It was an affair with actress Judith Campbell. Campbell became pregnant by the president in 1963 and had an abortion arranged by Sam Giancana, then the boss of the Chicago Mafia, with whom she also had a sexual relationship (although she claimed only after the affair with JFK). To put it mildly, the circumstances of this and other affairs JFK had while commander and chief make anything Trump has done as president look down right demure.
The difference between the treatments of the two presidents by CNN is the result of a few factors. First, the documentary and news divisions at the network likely work separately, the former with perhaps a less obvious political agenda. But also at work here is the merciful cleansing that time gives some of our heroes from the past. In retrospect, Kennedy was a boyish rogue; in 2018 Trump is a cad and a predator.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/04/03...ordid-affairs-and-neither-will-donald-trumps/