The Washington Post already knows it won't be endorsing Donald Trump


"Until now," The Washington Post editorial board writes, Donald Trump was "a Republican problem." But after he officially accepted the Republican nomination for the presidency Thursday night, "he became a challenge the nation must confront and overcome."
So begins an editorial published by The Washington Post on Friday, wherein the paper's editors make the case for why, just a single day after Trump officially took the helm of the Republican Party, they are already positive they will not be endorsing him:
We cannot salute the Republican nominee or pretend that we might endorse him this fall. A Trump presidency would be dangerous for the nation and the world. Why are we so sure? Start with experience. […] There is nothing on Mr. Trump's résumé to suggest he could function successfully in Washington. He was staked in the family business by a well-to-do father and has pursued a career marked by some real estate successes, some failures and repeated episodes of saving his own hide while harming people who trusted him. Given his continuing refusal to release his tax returns, breaking with a long bipartisan tradition, it is only reasonable to assume there are aspects of his record even more discreditable than what we know. The lack of experience might be overcome if Mr. Trump saw it as a handicap worth overcoming. But he displays no curiosity, reads no books, and appears to believe he needs no advice. [The Washington Post]
Read the Post's entire takedown of Trump here.
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