David belt: “Donald Trump is a useful idiot, or how does it sound in Russian?”

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On the night after the election of US President David belt , the editor -in -chief of the cult American weekly The New Yorker, turned to readers with the American Tragedy column. It began as follows: “The election of Donald Trump for the presidency is a tragedy for the American Republic, a tragedy for the Constitution and the triumph of the forces of chauvinism, authoritarianism, sexism and racism - both within the country and abroad.”

The flagships of the American press in these elections were extremely far from the role of statists. They beat the bells, warned of danger, fidgeted the candidate from the Republicans and his supporters, openly put on their candidate - Hillary Clinton. In a detailed interview, Republic, the belt tells why objective journalism, in his opinion, does not exist, what the American elite should be thought about, how it turned out that Trump had won contrary to forecasts and whether his relationship with Vladimir Putin would develop.

- Your farewell portrait of Barack Obama from the fresh The New Yorker begins with a replica of the former president: the results of the elections in the United States are not an apocalypse.

- Pretty optimistic on his part. I think Obama, of course, regards Trump’s victory as a huge defeat, a blow to her heritage, liberal policy, civil rights of various Americans. After all, you probably carefully watched the campaign, albeit at a distance, as they say, through the screen, but one way or another you know what is happening here.

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