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I heard a pretty good joke the other day about a group of children who toured a fire department. When the firefighter asked a child what he would do if his clothes caught on fire, the young boy replied, ā€œI wouldn’t put them on.ā€

I’m about to put on clothes that have caught on fire. I’m about to defend Donald Trump. Sort of.

Anyone who knows me knows I don’t particularly care for Trump. He’s to politics what Howard Cosell was to sports. Cosell prided himself in ā€œtelling it like it is,ā€ which was just his justification for being downright cruel. Same with Trump. And like Cosell, Trump is an insecure person who needs people to tell him how great he is — otherwise he’ll tell you.

And I certainly don’t go along with Trump banning the Washington Post or whatever he’s doing like he’s done to all these other news organizations: Gawker, BuzzFeed, Foreign Policy, Politico, Fusion, Univision, Mother Jones, the New Hampshire Union Leader, the Des Moines Register, the Daily Beast and Huffington Post.

But the Washington Post’s headline ā€œDonald Trump suggests President Obama was involved with Orlando shootingā€ was a stretch at the least and irresponsible at the worst.

The headline appeared online above the Post’s most-read article at the time. That was the original headline. The headline now states ā€œDonald Trump seems to connect President Obama to Orlando shooting.ā€

I read the story https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/13/donald-trump-suggests-president-obama-was-involved-with-orlando-shooting/. I don’t see anywhere in the story any statements made by Trump that specifically link Obama to the Orlando tragedy.

Now I have to put out my clothes that have been on fire.

— Charles Whisnand