This article comes from a journalist from CNN that goes by Stephen Collinson. The main audience for CNN is slightly left politically leaning more liberal. They begin the article by calling out White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney saying " abuses of power, conflicts of interest and unhinged behavior is the work of Mick Mulvaney. They then began to bash Trump saying things such as "nothing is going to restrain or moderate him. In fact, he's becoming ever more incorrigible." Just from this, it shows the intended audience for this article is democratic or at the least anti-Trump. The authors are pretty credible in the usage of facts but much of what was said in the article was purely opinion-based. Since it is such a heavy opinion based article it’s hard to say it’s a very credible article. The author then begins to give his opinion on Trump's behavior saying things like " Such behavior is a lesson that when a politician is prepared to remove a fundamental underpinning of shame and ethics from his political personality, there's almost no limit to his destructive political behavior. Later in the article the author uses a Retired Navy Admirals words to back up what he's saying yet the Navy Admiral doesn’t state any facts, instead, he accuses Trump of undermining the intelligence community, law enforcement, the Department of Justice, the State Department, the press, America's Kurdish allies, its NATO friends and international treaties. The author claiming to back up his opinion with an Admiral's opinion deteriorates the credibility for me. I don’t agree with this article but I don’t necessarily disagree with it either. I don't like how most accusations in the article were not backed up with facts, rather just someone else opinion. In conclusion, this is an anti-Trump article with the purpose to convince people that Trump should be impeached or at least not back in the office in 2020.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/18/politics/donald-trump-impeachment-turkey-kurds-g7-mulvaney/index.html
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