“As the next few consequential weeks unfold, we trust the American people, as they vote their conscience, will provide a clarion call for sound ideas, true leadership and proven character from our next administration and Congress. Trump cannot answer that call. We ask him to step aside.”— Deseret News, deseretnews.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump, Editorials, Hillary Clinton
“Some will see our denunciation of Trump as tantamount to an endorsement of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. That is not the case. Although she comes with extraordinary experience, Clinton promotes social and economic policies we cannot support and she too has a history of self-dealing that…”— Deseret News, deseretnews.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump, Editorials, Hillary Clinton
“When Donald Trump’s running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence visited Utah and met with members of the Deseret News Editorial Board, he assured us that Mr. Trump was a 'good man' who held 'the ideals and values’ of Utahns. Likewise, while visiting the Beehive State, Donald Trump Jr. told us that his fath…”— Deseret News, deseretnews.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump, Editorials
“In the face of these revelations, it is disheartening to see otherwise decent individuals now attempting to defend Trump’s talk, dismissing it as mere ‘locker room’ bravado. At the time of the audio recording, Trump was not a hormonal teenage athlete, but rather a 60-year-old husband of an expectant…”— Deseret News, deseretnews.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump, Editorials
“What oozes from this audio is evil. We hear a married man give smooth, smug and self-congratulatory permission to his intense impulses, allowing them to outweigh the most modest sense of decency, fidelity and commitment. And although it speaks volumes about sexual morality, it goes to the heart of a…”— Deseret News, deseretnews.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump, Editorials
“We understand that politicians and presidential candidates are human and that everyone makes mistakes. We do not believe that what is expressed in an unguarded moment of conversation should be the full measure of an individual. And we unquestionably support the principle that people deserve forgiven…”— Deseret News, deseretnews.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump, Editorials
“The idea that women secretly welcome the unbridled and aggressive sexual advances of powerful men has led to the mistreatment, sorrow and subjugation of countless women for far too much of human history. The notion that strength emanates from harsh, divisive and unbending rhetorical flourish mistake…”— Deseret News, deseretnews.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump, Editorials
“For 80 years, the Deseret News has not entered into the troubled waters of presidential endorsement. We are neutral on matters of partisan politics. We do, however, feel a duty to speak clearly on issues that affect the well-being and morals of the nation. Accordingly, today we call on Donald Trump…”— Deseret News, deseretnews.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump, Editorials