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| Lexington Herald-Leader’s press room |
Yet another disturbing attack on our free press and the newspapers that keep our democratic discourse alive has just occurred in Lexington, Kentucky.
On Sunday morning, sometime between 9:15 and 11:00 am, an unknown perpetrator fired a number of small caliber bullets into the windows of the Lexington Herald-Leader’s press room, reports the newspaper:
It is just the latest in a string of incidents that illustrate how President Trump’s relentless attacks on the press are endangering the lives of reporters.
Last week, Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte viciously assaulted a reporter who had previously written an unflattering story about him, body-slamming him to the ground and breaking his glasses.
The very next day, Texas Governor Greg Abbott casually joked about shooting reporters who asked him questions he didn’t like.
President Trump has spent the past year and a half viciously denigrating reporters and our free press for debunking his lies and for dredging up the many, many skeletons in Donald Trump’s closet.
He’s labeled the press an “enemy of the people,” accusing them of lying and of fabricating stories to make him look bad, threatened to rewrite libel laws to make it easier to punish reporters for doing their jobs, and constantly refers to the mainstream media as the “fake news” media.
Since taking office, brilliant investigative work by our newspapers has kept his administration constantly engulfed in humiliating scandals amid an almost daily string of bombshells exposing Trump and his team’s potentially treasonous collusion with agents of the Russian Federation.
The President of the United States is engaged in a full-on war with the First Amendment and the very concept of truth deriving from fact-based evidence as he desperately tries to hoodwink the American people into believing his lies. Our free press is one of the primary bulwarks we have against our nation’s slow slide towards authoritarianism – and now it is literally under attack.
Thankfully, nobody was hurt in this deeply disturbing shooting – but judging from the frequency with which these it’s only a matter of time before Trump’s dangerous anti-press rhetoric claims its first victim.
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http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/05/29/white-terrorist-just-attacked-innocent-black-man-machete/
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