NY Times Publisher: Trump Threatens Free Press

Despite being more accessible to the media than any president in modern times, Donald Trump threatens the role of a free and independent press in the U.S., according to the publisher of The New York Times.

A.G. Sulzberger, in a Times essay originally delivered as a speech at the University of Notre Dame on Tuesday, compared Trump to former Soviet Union leader Josef Stalin in saying the media is “the enemy of the people.”

Sulzberger accused Trump of helping to institute an “anti-press campaign in this country” by employing a five-part playbook:

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