  By way of background, in August 2002 defendant was charged by
felony complaint with assault in the second degree (Penal Law § 120.05
[1]) in connection with an incident in which he struck a man multiple
times with a golf club. Defendant thereafter waived indictment and
pleaded guilty in County Court (Marks, J.) to a superior court
information (SCI) charging him with assault in the second degree
pursuant to section 120.05 (2), a different subdivision of the statute
than was charged in the felony complaint. The case had not been
presented to the grand jury. Pursuant to the plea agreement,
defendant was sentenced in February 2003 to a determinate term of
imprisonment of five years and to five years of postrelease
supervision (PRS). He was released from prison in March 2007 and
commenced his period of PRS.

 Rod Thomson

We are in a new era in American politics.

It’s impossible to nail down when it started, but we can identify a few steps, and each involved the devolution of a non-partisan media, an increased ferocity on the American progressive Left and a heightening response from the Right.

Let’s start with the early 1990s. During the Clinton administration, the American media launched into actively covering up scandals for an American president because of worldview affiliation. To put it bluntly, the American media had become dominantly liberal at every level and across platforms by the 90s and the election of a Democrat after 12 years of Republicans in the White House displayed this.

The media looked the other way during maybe the most tawdry actions by an American president simply because