Time for Trib to step up…and demand Trump’s resignation

The Trib Editorial Board is certainly within its purview to demand Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan step down for likely, but not proven complicity in the Com Ed political corruption scandal. ‘Time to step down Mr. Speaker’, July 17. But the Trib’s righteous indignation rings hollow when compared to its refusal to confront the existential threat facing America from a president who has broken virtually every standard of decent leadership, degrading life, if not taking life, on a level unprecedented in U.S. history.

When Trump promoted the repeal of Obamacare without a replacement for the tens of millions it would harm, where was the Trib’s call for resignation?

When Trump separated children from their parents at the border, throwing them into deplorable conditions, where was the Trib’s call for resignation?

When Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement and assassinated an Iranian general on Iraqi soil along with five other Iranians and four Iraqi nationals, where was the Trib’s call for resignation?

When Trump called the racists who rioted in Charlottesville, VA ‘good people’, where was the Trib’s call for resignation?

When Trump squandered six months pretending there was no pandemic to goose his re-election chances, adding untold thousands to the death toll, where was the Trib’s call for resignation?

Time for the Trib Editorial Board to step up and call for Trump’s resignation, indeed.