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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 09:36 AM Apr 2018

Hillary Clinton Says Free Press Is Under 'Open Assault' in Trump Era

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (JOCELYN NOVECK)
April 23, 2018, 10:59 AM EDT Updated on April 23, 2018, 11:11 AM EDT

New York (AP) -- Hillary Clinton excoriated President Donald Trump for his treatment of the media, saying in remarks on Sunday that press rights and free speech are "under open assault" in the current administration, which she compared to an authoritarian regime.

"We are living through an all-out war on truth, facts and reason," Clinton said at the PEN America World Voices Festival, in Manhattan. "When leaders deny things we can see with our own eyes, like the size of a crowd at the inauguration, when they refuse to accept settled science when it comes to urgent challenges like climate change ... it is the beginning of the end of freedom, and that is not hyperbole. It's what authoritarian regimes through history have done."

Clinton, who was delivering the festival's Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, began by discussing threats to press freedom and free speech around the globe, including in Vladimir Putin's Russia. But she soon turned her remarks to the United States under Trump, saying that such freedoms are "in the most perilous position I've seen in my lifetime."

"Today we have a president who seems to reject the role of a free press in our democracy," she said of her 2016 opponent. "Although obsessed with his own press coverage, he evaluates it based not on whether it provides knowledge or understanding, but solely on whether the daily coverage helps him and hurts his opponents."

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/clinton-free-press-is-under-open-assault-in-trump-era

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Hillary Clinton Says Free Press Is Under 'Open Assault' in Trump Era (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP
K & R Wwcd Apr 2018 #1
Yes, I put that in my Cha Apr 2018 #4
Hillary's obviously correct on this; here's hopin she joins Bernie in building his new media empire. InAbLuEsTaTe Apr 2018 #2
yeah, trump rejects it because they tell Cha Apr 2018 #3
 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
1. K & R
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 09:45 AM
Apr 2018

"When leaders deny things we can see with our own eyes, like the size of a crowd at the inauguration, when they refuse to accept settled science when it comes to urgent challenges like climate change ... it is the beginning of the end of freedom, and that is not hyperbole. It's what authoritarian regimes through history have done."

Cha

(295,925 posts)
3. yeah, trump rejects it because they tell
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 10:05 AM
Apr 2018

the truth about him and fux lies for him.

Thanks Hillary!

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