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"Fox News anchor Chris Wallace cautioned his colleagues and the network's viewers Sunday that President Trump's latest attack on the media had gone too far.

“Look, we're big boys. We criticize presidents. They want to criticize us back, that's fine,” Wallace said Sunday morning on “Fox & Friends.” “But when he said that the fake news media is not my enemy, it's the enemy of the American people, I believe that crosses an important line.”

The “Fox & Friends” anchors had shown a clip of Trump recounting that past presidents, including Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, had fought with the press. They then asked Wallace whether Trump's fraught relationship with the media was a big deal.

In response, Wallace told his colleagues that Jefferson had also once written the following: “And were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

Context was important, Wallace said. All presidents fight with the media, but Trump had taken it a step further in making them out to be “the enemy,” he added.

“Yes, presidents have always had — and politicians have always had — problems with the press. They want good press. The press doesn't always give it to them,” Wallace said. “But what Jefferson [was saying] is, despite all of our disputes, that to the functioning of a free and fair democracy, you must have an independent press.”

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace warns viewers: Trump crossed the line in latest attack on media - The Washington Post

"Secretary of Defense James Mattis on Sunday broke with President Donald Trump's view of the media as "the enemy of the American people."

"I've had some rather contentious times with the press," Mattis told reporters during a trip to Abu Dhabi, according to a video published by Reuters. "The press, as far as I'm concerned, are a constituency that we deal with, and I don't have any issues with the press myself."

Defense Secretary Mattis Has No Issues With Press, Unlike Trump - NBC News

Originally Posted by Guest

You are right, Presidents do have to tell the truth and give us answers. That is exactly the beef President Trump has with the press/media. THEY DO NOT TELL THE TRUTH. If and when they do see the light, he will lay off of them. Until that time, he will continue to berate them, and will continue to take to Twitter bypassing them in order to tell people the truth.

Trump cannot choose his facts, period