Trump Sharpens Attacks on the News Media

“In declaring war on The Wall Street Journal over its coverage of his yearslong friendship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, President Trump tapped his supporters’ distrust of his favorite foe — the news media — in an effort to put down a mutiny within his base,“ the New York Times reports.

“It was a familiar move that might have been lifted straight from his playbook in the 2016 presidential campaign.”

“But this is a very different moment. If Trump’s complaints about the media feel like a throwback to his first term, his actions toward the industry have gone much further than that.”