12/2/19
For my topic, I chose to look at articles discussing Trump's impeachment process. I found articles from The Daily Wire and CNN. In the CNN article by Jeremy Herb, he uses exaggerated descriptions based on his own opinions and assumptions to convince the reader that the Republican stance on the impeachment is invalid, and that his own opinion is trustworthy. In the article, it says,"the (Republican) report largely ignores or downplays testimony from career officials who raised serious questions and concerns about the conduct of the President and some of his top aides." The author's descriptions of the career official's testimonies and how they were treated in the report are exaggerations and a projection of his own opinion. By describing the career official's concerns as 'serious,' the author is trying to convince the reader that the career official's testimony has value and is valid, but this description is merely the author's own opinion, and does not truly tell the reader anything about the testimony. Similarly, the author's description of the report 'largely ignoring' this testimony is his own opinion. What one considers 'large' is all dependent on their perspective. He inserts these opinions into his writing and presents them as fact; they are exaggerations that paint the Republican report out to be a deceitful cover-up operation that has entirely disregarded the career official's valid testimony, and in turn convinces the reader that the Republican report is invalid and the testimony incriminating Trump is trustworthy. In the Daily Wire article, the author, Josh Hammer, exaggerates the democratic defense, and uses to language to make their claims seem silly, in order to convince the reader the claims against Trump are invalid. He says that, "it is far better... to make the substantive argument that attaching strings to the doling out of politically unpopular U.S. taxpayer-funded foreign aid simply cannot rise to the level of an impeachable offense." In this quote, he describes Trump's behaviors as 'politically unpopular foreign aid' that does not qualify as impeachable behavior. This description uses language that makes the behaviors Trump did exhibit appear in the more harmless and unsophisticated way they possibly can, and in turn convinces the reader to believe it is silly to pursue punishment for behaviors that aren't immoral or criminal.
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My sources: 1) Daily wire article https://www.dailywire.com/news/impeachment-wire-the-latest-on-the-effort-to-impeach-president-trump 2) CNN article https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/02/politics/house-republican-response-impeachment-inquiry/index.html
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