唐涅狄格州最大的当地报业连锁敦促唐纳德·特朗普总统下台，此前他与乌克兰的通信有“确凿证据”。
赫斯特康涅狄格媒体编辑委员会周四呼吁特朗普辞职，理由是“其行为远远超出了民主党领袖公认的标准”这家报业集团的编辑委员会表示，特朗普要求调查亨特·拜登与乌克兰总统沃洛迪米尔·泽兰斯基的交易，“将在政治上对他有利”，这是一个“可弹劾罪行”的明显案例严厉的赫斯特社论承认“几乎没有机会”特朗普会下台，并敦促国会投票将他从白宫罢免。
编辑委员会要求特朗普辞职是此类事件中的第一次，并引发了关于全国新闻出版物是否会效仿的讨论。
“总统正确的下一步是明确的。他应该辞职，”编辑部首先在文章中写道出版在康涅狄格邮报。“他一再证明自己不适合担任公职，似乎认为总统职位是为了个人利益，而不是代表整个国家的利益。”
“事实是特朗普从一开始就违反法律和规范而不受惩罚。例如，美国宪法禁止联邦官员接受外国实体的任何礼物或付款，但在与乌克兰总统的同一通电话中，我们看到特朗普违规的证据，”编辑委员会继续说道。
总部位于纽约的赫斯特通信公司在全国拥有数十家杂志、报纸和其他在线新闻媒体品牌。除了康涅狄格邮报，赫斯特控件格林威治时间,《新闻时报》， 倡导者，米德尔顿出版社，the纽黑文注册，小时，注册公民和康涅狄格杂志仅在康涅狄格州。
这篇社论接着说，特朗普在特别顾问罗伯特·穆勒对俄罗斯的调查中“免于刑事起诉”，“是因为他目前担任的职务”
“我们知道的就足够了，因为这是总统本人的，没有理由怀疑它的真实性。从这里再也回不去了。特朗普时代漫长而崎岖的道路可能已经拐过一个弯，但还远未结束，”编辑委员会总结道。
这篇社论引发了新闻媒体业对报纸或其他出版物是否会加入康涅狄格州委员会谴责特朗普总统行为的猜测。
对此，东北大学新闻学教授丹·肯尼迪质疑张贴将是赫斯特旗下众多报纸中第一家呼吁特朗普辞职的。
“赫斯特的报纸。这是整个链条的试验气球吗？”肯尼迪推特，回复费城问询报专栏作家威尔·邦奇宣称，“向强者致敬康涅狄格邮报！终于有人必须先走了。"
LARGEST CONNECTICUT NEWSPAPER GROUP DEMANDS DONALD TRUMP STEP DOWN AS PRESIDENT
The largest local newspaper chain in the state of Connecticut is urging President Donald Trump to step down from office in the wake of "damning evidence" tied to his communications with Ukraine.
The Hearst Connecticut Media Editorial Board on Thursday called for Trump to resign from office for "conduct far outside the accepted norms of a democratic leader." The newspaper chain's editorial board said Trump's request for an investigation into Hunter Biden's dealings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "would benefit him politically" and is a clear-cut case of an "impeachable offense." The scathing Hearst editorial concedes "there's almost no chance" Trump will step down and urges Congress to vote to remove him from the White House.
The editorial board's call for Trump's resignation is one of the first of its kind and has prompted discussion over whether news publications around the country will follow suit.
"The proper next step for the president is clear. He should resign," the editorial board wrote in the piece first published in the Connecticut Post. "He has repeatedly proven himself unfit for office and appears to view the presidency as a position meant to benefit himself personally, not as one that must represent the interests of an entire nation."
"The truth is that Trump has been breaking laws and norms with impunity from the beginning. For instance, the U.S. Constitution forbids federal officeholders from receiving any gifts or payments from foreign entities, but in the same phone call with the Ukrainian president we see evidence that Trump is in violation," the editorial board continued.
New York City-based Hearst Communications owns dozens of magazines, newspapers and other online news media brands across the country. In addition to the Connecticut Post, Hearst controls Greenwich Time, The News-Times, The Advocate, The Middletown Press, the New Haven Register, The Hour, The Register Citizen and Connecticut Magazine in the state of Connecticut alone.
The editorial goes on to say Trump was only "saved from criminal indictment" in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation "by virtue of the office he currently holds."
"[W]hat we know is enough, and because it's from the president himself, there's no reason to question its veracity. There's no going back from here. The long, bumpy ride of the Trump era may have turned a corner, but it's nowhere near over," the editorial board concluded.
The editorial sparked news media industry speculation on whether newspapers or other publications will join the Connecticut board in condemning Trump's actions as president.
In response, Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy questioned if the Post would be the first of many Hearst-owned newspapers to call for Trump's resignation.
"A Hearst paper. Is this a trial balloon for the entire chain?" Kennedy tweeted, replying to Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch, who declared, "All hail the mighty Connecticut Post! Somebody finally had to go first."
