Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Why does Trump so vigorously attack 1st Amendment Freedom of Press? In his own words . . .



Why does Trump so incessantly attack the media and call it ‘fake news.”  His remark from 2016 helps clarify his motivation.

“Stahl said Trump made the remark during a meeting the two had at Trump Tower in the lead-up to her sit-down interview with the then-president-elect and his family in November 2016.

"At one point, he started to attack the press," Stahl told the audience at a journalism awards event at the Harvard Club in Manhattan on Monday evening. "There were no cameras in there."

"I said, 'You know, this is getting tired. Why are you doing it over and over? It's boring and it's time to end that. You know, you've won ... why do you keep hammering at this?'" Stahl went on. "And he said: 'You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you.'"


This is not a left-leaning magazine.

 

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