The Trump White House's Assault on Press Freedom: A Pattern of Intimidation The latest salvo in the ongoing battle between Donald Trump and the press has been fired, with three prominent news outlets – CNN, MSNBC, and Politico – announcing plans to sue the administration over their exclusion from the White House.
This development is not surprising, given the increasingly fraught relationship between Trump and the media.
The extent to which this latest move reflects a broader pattern of behavior that threatens the very foundations of American democracy, however, is noteworthy.