Go to the online edition of a national magazine or newspaper such as Time, Newsw

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Go to the online edition of a national magazine or newspaper such as Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times, or The Washington Post. Locate and review a cover story that uses different types of support. 1.) Provide basic information about the story, including: a link so your classmates can review it, name of the publication, and title of the story. Do not post the entire story. 2.) List examples of a fact, expert or peer testimony, a statistic, and an analogy. 3.) Are the supporting materials presented effective or ineffective? Explain why. If they are ineffective, how could they be improved?

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1). TRUMP VS. MUELLER: IS THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM ANY MATCH FOR THE PRESIDENT?

Link: http://www.newsweek.com/2018/03/16/trump-mueller-american-legal-system-match-president-834695.html

Writer: NINA BURLEIGH

Tags: U.S., DONALD TRUMP, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, ROBERT MUELLER, RUSSIA INVESTIGATION

Summary of article:

1. Two tax lawyers wrote in The Washington Post, Trump may have committed fraud.

2. Trump broke with 40 years of presidential tradition by not releasing his tax returns.

3. Trump—whose companies have filed for bankruptcy six times—allowed them to run up massive debts, stay afloat and avoid paying taxes.

4. “What the American people are seeing today, is that the rule of law and Constitution are not more important than ‘What’s in it for Trump?’” Which is perhaps a fitting theme for Trump’s political reality show, however, it may end soon.

Publication: IBT Media

2) Example of Expert Testimony:

Since the 1980s, there have been four special investigations into presidents. But only one—Bill Clinton’s—led to an impeachment (and just in the House of Representatives). “Our Constitution was not created to deal with someone with Donald Trump’s character,” says Jason Johnson, a political scientist and MSNBC contributor. “This is the greatest challenge to constraining him with the law or the Constitution or controlling his behavior.”

Example of Peer Testimony:

As Alicia Glen, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s deputy mayor for housing and economic development, told The New York Times: “Donald Trump is probably worse than any other developer in his relentless pursuit of every single dime of taxpayer subsidies he can get his paws on.”

Statistic Testimony:

He sued Deutsche Bank in 2008 for $3 billion in a dispute over a $40 million debt he owed. The bank countersued and eventually started loaning Trump money again. He sued a Miss Universe contestant, Sheena Monnin, for $10 million after she called the contest rigged (Recently, pageant officials appeared to confirm this to The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin.)

Analogy Testimony:

In 2016, when Trump was running for president, he persuaded his lawyer Marc Kasowitz to demand The New York Times retract its story about past sexual misconduct partly because some of the women waited years and even decades to come forward. Epstein, in an open letter to Trump before the election, called that claim “one of the dumbest demand letters in the history of defamation law.”

3) The supporting materials presented are ineffective, as by reading the supporting materials one can conclude that Donald Trump is guilty of so many crimes. Yet Donald Trump is twitching each and every rule by his own whims and fancy. There is no hard evident proof to put president under bars.

This condition can be improved if the opposition forms a group and sort out each and every matter one by one, providing proof as required against each case.

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