Sunday 19 February 2017

Donald Trump just called the media the 'enemy of the American people'

Extract from ABC News

Updated about 7 hours ago

It's no secret Donald Trump isn't a fan of the media.
He once again made that clear during an aggressive press conference in which he defended his administration as a "fine-tuned machine" and denied his team had made inappropriate contact with Russian officials during the election campaign.
But this morning, the US President dramatically stepped up his attack on news outlets on his preferred medium Twitter:

The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!
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Thomas Jefferson, the author of the US Declaration of Independence, said, "The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by a despotic government."

i.e. Oxford Dictionary despotic

adjective

  • Of or typical of a despot; tyrannical.
    ‘a despotic regime’

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