President Donald J. Trump addresses his remarks at the Namaste Trump Rally Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, at the Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad, India. (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead)
President Trump has called America's broadcast networks "Fake News" for most of his tenure in the White House.
Not without reason, given the fabricated Russia collusion reports and more that were trumpeted by those networks' anchors over and over and over.
Now he's leaving the White House, and officials for ABC said that's the easy part.
The hard part, according to Rick Klein and Mary Alice Parks, will be "cleansing" the nation of his ideas from his supporters.
"Even aside from impeachment and 25th Amendment talk, Trump will be an ex-president in 13 days," they wrote in a column on the network site, "The fact is that getting rid of Trump is the easy part.
"Cleansing the movement he commands, or getting rid of what he represents to so many Americans, is going to be something else."
Trump will be an ex-president in 13 days. The fact is that getting rid of Trump is the easy part. Cleansing the movement he commands is going to be something else.
https://t.co/KnEloRm123 via @ABC— Rick Klein (@rickklein) January 7, 2021
The ABC officials condemned the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and they accused President Trump of encouraging it.
But they said a real problem rests with those who support Trump.
"Until Wednesday's siege, when a mob of extremists engaged in an attempted insurrection and violent occupation of the Capitol, there seemed to be little cost to some Republicans in indulging Trump's conspiracy theories, lies and fantasies," they wrote. "That fiction was exposed by Wednesday's horror. The trauma of the day saw seemingly sincere concerns about election security melt away, amid a newfound bipartisan resolve to finish final certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory."
They noted President Trump's desire, expressed a few months ago, for jail for anyone who "vandalizes or destroys any monument, statue or other such federal property."
His concern at the time was rampant riots by leftists across hundreds of cities in America, riots which experts have suggested did $2 billion in damage.
The commentary said, "The nation will need to process the events of Wednesday for weeks and years to come, but a part of the many layers of healing will be a demonstration that those those (sic) involved in an insurrection face justice, an acknowledgment that we police Americans unevenly in this country and a commitment to try to fix that."
The Washington Examiner warned: "Beware, 75 million Trump voters. The media is calling for your ideological 'cleansing' of Trump thoughts."
Previously, some media outlets have joined liberals in demanding a "list" of Trump aides and supporters, in order to blackball them from jobs.
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