I was a Trump hater — until I learned the truth of the media’s ‘very fine’ lies

The truth shall set us free from the bondage that lies oppress upon us.

I became a free man once I understood the truth of what our mainstream media is, rather than the front it hides behind.

Journalistic professionalism has been superseded by unabashed bias as outlets propagandize for one particular political party, to the detriment of truth.

And if they’re not lying about their adversary to sway public perception, they’re conspiring to glorify their friends in DC as sinless political deities.

Kamala Harris is the media’s deity of the moment — constantly praised for not being either Joe Biden or Donald Trump and receiving 66% more coverage than Trump from major media outlets. An incredible 84% of that coverage has been positive.

Meanwhile, our supposedly “fair” media lambasts Trump with negative coverage 89% of the time, the Washington Examiner reports, and continues to perpetuate long-debunked falsehoods about him alongside the Democratic Party.

I used to be one of those naïve people who thought the American media placed the public’s interest ahead of their own.

So when they framed Trump as an abnormally corrupt individual who would end democracy as we know it, I bought into it.

When you hear a message in near unison that one man is an existential threat to our society, the consensus attitude starts to resemble truth.

Nearly every journalist at nearly every major outlet affirmed the authenticity of this lie, weaponizing it to convince avid consumers of political media like me to never consider Trump as a viable presidential choice.

But I broke out of this haze of naivety in 2020, when I became curious about the “good people on both sides” myth that I had heard repeatedly for years — and which remains on life support to this day, perpetuated by President Biden and by Never Trumper Ana Navarro at this year’s Democratic National Convention.

Both of them parroted the media spin that used a truncated clip to claim Trump praised neo-Nazis and white supremacists in his comments about a 2017 protest-turned-riot in Charlottesville, Va.

I still remember my shock the first time I watched the full dialogue in proper context — because in reality, Trump condemned the very white supremacists the media claimed he had praised.

Reporters had completely misrepresented his statement to further the Democratic Party’s agenda.

I felt racially manipulated, pushed to shun Trump as a racist through repetitious, unfounded accusations and hoaxed into believing that he’d said the tiki-torch-carrying white supremacists were good people.

Whenever you’re confronted with betrayal as you unveil a lie, you’re left with an obvious question: If they’re willing to lie to me about this, what else are they lying about?

I was a Democrat because I presumed that the main ingredient of the information I was being served was authenticity, never imagining it was laced with poisonous falsehoods.

Yet I’m far from the only American who has realized that our country’s pool of journalists is dominated by snooty liberal elitists who look down on the working class, careerists who cater to the needs of the powerful and ideological Democratic operatives hell-bent on currying favors for recognition.

Since 1973, Gallup has polled Americans annually to measure their trust in media. Last year, only 32% percent said they trusted the mass media “a great deal” or “a fair amount” to report the news in a full, fair and accurate way — a return to 2016’s record low.

And despite our mainstream media’s obvious preference for the Democratic Party, only 58% of Democrats trust the industry.

I know several people who woke up to our current media’s misleading and vitriolic nature based purely on their overtly antagonistic and deranged behavior toward Trump —  a 180-degree turnaround from their treatment of Barack Obama and far worse than their coverage of previous Republican presidents.

Today’s media propagandists may claim that Trump’s attacks on the press are to blame for Americans’ media distrust. But the trend toward disillusionment has been building for decades.

Trump didn’t command me to become skeptical of the mainstream media; they revealed themselves to be untrustworthy through their rhetoric concerning him.

And when I was freed from the bondage of mainstream-media Trump lunacy, I saw him for what he is: A flawed individual like every other politician, regardless of party.

If Trump is supposed to be the next Hitler or the anti-Christ or whatever terrible label might scare us into opposing him, then why lie about him?

Truly evil people exist — but it’s the truth about them, not exaggerations, that reveals their evil.

I expect politicians to lie, but not those who are supposed to be informing me about them.

Adam B. Coleman is the author of “Black Victim to Black Victor” and founder of Wrong Speak Publishing.