Trump now calls war reporting ‘treason’. His attacks on the press are escalating fast.
The US president is using the language and the strategy of authoritarians once again
There’s nothing completely new in Donald Trump’s latest attacks on reporters.
But they’re more extreme now and ever more indicative of what he wants: a docile press that provides propaganda – not factual journalism – for everything he does, including for his misguided war in Iran.
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