Senators assail attacks on the press as antidemocratic
Noah Bierman
... Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona .. delivered an impassioned speech from the Senate floor, comparing Trump's anti-press rhetoric to that of the murderous Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and calling on his colleagues to speak out against Trump's "shameful, repulsive statements."
... Flake said, "2017 was a year which saw the truth — objective, empirical, evidence-based truth — more battered and abused than at any time in the history of our country, at the hands of the most powerful figure in our government."
Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Richard J. Durbin of Illinois also spoke out against Trump's rhetoric, echoing Flake's accusation that Trump is trying to upend the distinction between objective truth and lying ...
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-fake-news-trump-20180117-story.html
