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The Case Of Donald Trump And The Election Of Russia

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There are thousands of different news outlets. Some of these can be trusted but some should not be. Every country has their own news sources and these range from national to local. Without news outlets, citizens would be uninformed of what was happening around them, but unfortunately these citizens may be misinformed as well. This is widely known as fake news and it can be hard to spot at times. Lots of cases of fake news occur daily all across the world, but one case that has been widely publicized has to do with Russia and the election of America’s forty-fifth president, Donald Trump, and his opponent Hilary Clinton. This situation has been shown on television stations, printed in newspapers, and written online millions of times.
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She thinks that this is some proof that Trump has favoritism to Russia. More solid evidence was then found from an email between Michael Cohen, who is Trump’s lawyer, and Felix Sater, who is from Russia. This email was from Sater and he wrote “that a successful deal would lead to Trump’s becoming president” (nytimes.com 1). In response to this information, the author wrote that “they showed that Trump was lying” (nytimes.com 1). She blatantly called the President of the United States liar. Her saying that shows that she is biased against Trump. It shows that she most likely does not care for him. The fact that the New York Times published this shows that it probably is biased against Trump as well. This article was published in the opinion section, so it should probably not be considered fully accurate. The author got some of her information from other news sources but most of it was opinion so it is definitely a biased article.
Another news outlet, The Washington Post, has posted articles similar to this one. For example, Jennifer Rubin titled her article, “The Trump administration is up to its neck in Russians.” Just like the previous title, this title portrays a negative view of Trump and Russia. Before even reading the article, the reader knows that it will have to do with how Trump is involved with Russia in a bad way. This author writes

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