{"id":546377,"date":"2017-05-25T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=546377"},"modified":"2017-05-26T05:34:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T03:34:25","slug":"the-gops-war-on-the-press-explodes-into-full-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/fr\/2017\/05\/the-gops-war-on-the-press-explodes-into-full-view\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOP\u2019s war on the press explodes into full view"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican Party, led by President Donald Trump, has been widening its war on the press at a breathtaking pace<\/b>
\nFirst came the body slam, as Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte grabbed Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs by the neck and lifted him off the ground Wednesday afternoon at a Montana campaign event. Then came the punches as Jacobs lay sprawled on the floor. Here\u2019s how Fox News reporter Alicia Acuna the jaw-dropping assault. She and two of her colleagues were in the room when the Gianforte attack took place: The candidate, who\u2019s running in a special election today, has for the assault. It\u2019s all very shocking, but it\u2019s not surprising. It\u2019s shocking that a grown man who wants to represent the voters of Montana in the halls and chambers of Congress decided to physically assault a reporter who was pressing the candidate with about the Congressional Budget Office\u2019s projections for the proposed GOP health care plan. \u201cThe eye-witness accounts and the recordings have stunned us, \u201d the Billings Gazette, Montana\u2019s newspaper, which withdrew its endorsement of Gianforte last night. \u201cWe must adopt zero tolerance for such behavior if freedom of expression means anything.\u201d But it\u2019s not surprising. It\u2019s not surprising because the Republican Party, led by President Donald Trump, has been widening at a breathtaking pace over the last two years. journalists as the \u201cenemy of the people, \u201d Trump has signaled to the party and to the larger conservative movement that it\u2019s open season on the news media. \u201cI called the fake news \u2018the enemy of the people\u2019 \u2014 and they are. They are the enemy of the people. Because they have no sources, they just make them up when there are none, \u201d Trump during his address at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February.<\/p>\n

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