Paper Says ‘Serious Voters’ Will Focus on Clinton Being ‘Eminently Qualified and Painfully Forged,’ Trump ‘A Total Disgrace’
The Salt Lake Tribune, one of Utah’s most powerful and respected voices, has just endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. The newspaper calls the Democratic nominee both “eminently qualified” and “tough, yet able and willing to reach out to politicians to her left and her right in order to get things done.”
“The Trib,” as the state’s largest daily paper is known, is owned by Huntsman Family Investments, headed by the family that includes former Utah governor and Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman.
“Clinton’s devotion to making the world a better place for the less fortunate, especially children, has been the core of her whole career,” the Tribune’s editors write. “She sees the threats of terror abroad, gun violence at home and climate change globally and has plans to address all of that, and more.”
“She recognizes the unfairness of those who lack access to health care and those at the short end of extreme economic inequality. She would make tax policy more equitable and work to help the poor climb out of their misery.”
Clinton, they add, “has stood up for religious freedom around the world, even in dealing with regimes such as China, where it was a risky position to take.”
By comparison, the paper notes, Trump’s campaign “was based on divisive, bigoted and insulting rhetoric. On lies about how bad things are. On a promise to fix things by basically being a dictator. It was all designed to inflame a vocal minority of us who haven’t adjusted to the fact that the America where white males brought home the bacon from secure factory jobs — and didn’t have to deal with a globe of different ethnic backgrounds — is gone for good.”
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This article has been updated to remove a reference to the former owner of the Salt Lake Tribune.