McMullin: Trump team's media attacks are authoritarian-like

[UCmeNdc]

Source: CNN

Former independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin said Thursday President Donald Trump and his chief strategist's attacks on the media are "highly dangerous" and authoritarian-like.

In an interview with The New York Times, Trump adviser Steve Bannon labeled the media as "the opposition party" and said it should "be embarrassed" and "keep its mouth shut."

"I think Mr. Bannon and Mr. Trump's attacks on the media are highly dangerous. The media, the press, plays a significant role in our democracy, and in any democracy they are highly critical. You can have disputes and disagreements over bias and even over points of fact; but to continually attack and try to erode the credibility of the media when it's doing its job, and doing its job well I would say, in the past week especially, challenging Trump, I think is dangerous," McMullin told CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead."

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/26/politics/trump-bannon-media-attacks-mcmullin-tapper-cnntv/index.html

[AllaN01Bear]

1. like ? . they are.

[dalton99a]

3. +1

[katmondoo]

2. Mr. Bannon and Trump both need to shut up and listen

Did they not see 3 million protesters Saturday

[benfranklin1776]

6. Oh they did..

That's what has got the Orange Don and his followers from the cult of mass psychosis so unsettled. Hence they have doubled down on their lies and brown shirt intimidation tactics to deny the reality of the revulsion a growing number of Americans feel at their dictatorial and unhinged actions.

[lark]

4. 4th Reich is their goal.

They are copying Hitler's playbook, line by line. He even has patterned his speeches after HItlers'. These are very dangerous people.

[annabanana]

5. What YOU said! . . . .n/t

[LisaL]

8. Hitler didn't end up well.

[blueseas]

7. More people are waking up

This one is not in lockstep with the other repubs.


Interesting.

[TeddyBear 1]

9. when..

this was first reported, I was stunned. .. how could this be happening in the U.S.? And another thought is Trump's mind is gone and Bannon and his group are using him for their purpose. .. This is truly going down in the history books as a bad time for the country..

I have yet to see any trump people I know that changed their minds on how they feel about trump.. they still think he is doing great.. so this is scary..

[colsohlibgal]

10. Why Did Otherwise Sane People Vote For Drumpf?

The short answer is 20 years of 24/7 right wing talk on Fox and radio. It has warped the mind of millions who believe so much that just isn't true. Right wing talk has convinced the clueless to vote directly against their own personal interests, thus carrying water for millionaires and billionaires and the war/security state.

The Ruling Class gets largely what they want because too many people do not fact check....as in Hillary is running a child sex ring out of a pizza store in DC. Really?

The dumbing down of America is why we now have a mentally unstable clown in the WH.

[Tom Rinaldo]

11. McMullin actually seems like what he claims to be

A principled conservative who actually respects the underpinnings of American democracy. Too bad he is not very representative of those who today call themselves conservatives.

[Blue_Tires]

12. It's telling that Glenn Fucking Greenwald

has been in full smear mode on Twitter since McMullin had the courage to speak up...

Literally every other tweet the past few days has been about McMullin