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Trump Takes Press Attacks to New Level

February 17, 2017 · 5:31 am ET · Leave a Comment

Associated Press: “Historians can point to plenty of past presidents who have sparred with the press. But they’re hard-pressed to find anything that approaches the all-out attack on the media that President Donald Trump seems intent on escalating at every turn.”

Said Rice University’s Douglas Brinkley: “There has never been a kind of holistic jihad against the news media like Trump is executing. Trump is determined to beat and bloody the press whenever he finds himself in a hole, and that’s unique.”

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