Editing John Pilger (section)

===Comments about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton===
In a February 2016 webchat on the website of ''The Guardian'' newspaper, Pilger said "Trump is speaking straight to ordinary Americans". Although his opinions about immigration were "gross", Pilger wrote that they are "no more gross in essence than, say, [[David Cameron]]'s – he is not planning to invade anywhere, he doesn't hate the Russians or the Chinese, he is not beholden to Israel. People like this lack of cant, and when the so-called liberal media deride him, they like him even more".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://politicalscrapbook.net/2016/02/john-pilger-praises-trump-says-he-has-an-absence-of-hypocrisy/|title=John Pilger Praises Trump, Says He Has an 'Absence of Hypocrisy'|work=Political Scrapbook|date=24 February 2016|access-date=28 October 2016|archive-date=29 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161029044235/https://politicalscrapbook.net/2016/02/john-pilger-praises-trump-says-he-has-an-absence-of-hypocrisy/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In March 2016, Pilger commented in a speech delivered at the [[University of Sydney]] during the [[2016 United States presidential election]], that [[Donald Trump]] was a less dangerous potential President of the United States than [[Hillary Clinton]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Intondi|first=Vincent|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vincent-intondi/no-hillary-clinton-is-not_b_9544458.html|title=No, Hillary Clinton Is Not Worse Than Donald Trump|work=The Huffington post|date=25 March 2016|access-date=28 October 2016}}</ref>

In November 2016, Pilger said that "notorious terrorist jihadist group called [[ISIL]] or ISIS is created largely with money from [the government of [[Saudi Arabia|Saudi]] and the government of Qatar] who are giving money to the [[Clinton Foundation]]".<ref>{{cite news |title=Julian Assange interview: WikiLeaks editor talks to John Pilger about US election and the leaked Hillary Clinton, John Podesta emails |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/julian-assange-interview-wikileaks-editor-talks-to-john-pilger-about-us-election-and-the-leaked-hillary-clinton-john-podesta-emails-35195720.html |work=[[Belfast Telegraph]] |date=7 November 2016}}</ref>

In August 2017, in an article published on his website, Pilger wrote that a "coup against the man in the White House is under way. This is not because he is an odious human being, but because he has consistently made clear he does not want war with Russia. This glimpse of sanity, or simple pragmatism, is anathema to the 'national security' managers who guard a system based on war, surveillance, armaments, threats and extreme [[capitalism]]". According to Pilger, ''The Guardian'' had published "drivel" in covering the claims "that the [[Russian interference in the 2016 United States election|Russians conspired with Trump]]". Such assertions, he wrote, are "reminiscent of the far-right smearing of [[John F. Kennedy|John Kennedy]] as a 'Soviet agent'".<ref>{{cite news|last=Pilger|first=John|url=http://johnpilger.com/articles/on-the-beach-2017-the-beckoning-of-nuclear-war|title=On the Beach 2017. The Reckoning of Nuclear War|work=John Pilger|date=4 August 2017|access-date=5 August 2017}}</ref>