‘These two incidents are not to be taken lightly, folks. These are direct hits on our freedom of the press, and make no mistake, but a free press – one able to criticize without fear of reprisal – is our only hope of knowing what our government is doing.’ … the free press has been under attack since that FIDIOT started descending that escalator … I’m beyond words!!
The press, the media, are NOT the enemy of the people. Period.
Two news items this week have left me literally shaking with rage. The first you have likely already seen and heard multiple times, but the second was less publicized and you may have missed it.
First …
It is reminiscent of February 2017 when, shortly after taking office, he called the press “the enemy of the people”. Since then, hardly a day has gone by that he didn’t refer to CNN, the New York Times or The Washington Post as “fake news”. As if all that weren’t quite enough, his 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale tweeted …
This, folks, is intolerable. No modern American president has publicly spoken this way about the press. Is this what Trump’s followers find so admirable about him? Is this what they mean when they say he “tells it like it is”? If…
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