Trump’s Campaign to Crush the Media

Paul Farhi: “Ever since he launched his presidential campaign in 2015, Trump has fulminated against ‘the fake news.’ But only in his second term has Trump gone beyond such rhetoric to wage a multifront war on media freedom with all of the tools at his disposal: executive actions, lawsuits, a loyal regulatory bureaucracy, a compliant Republican majority in Congress and a sympathetic Supreme Court. Each of his actions has been extraordinary in its own right; collectively, they represent a slow-motion demolition of the Fourth Estate.”

“The principal question isn’t just whether anyone can stop Trump, but whether anyone in power really wants to.”