Originally Posted by Guest

No President has attacked our First Amendment rights more viciously than Trump. He is Hitlerian in his insistence of "fake news" and has convinced many of his followers that the media is "nothing short of disgusting". It is the job of the press to report what the President says and does. A free press is the ONLY thing that stands between us and dictatorship. The Gold Star phone call fiasco is, indeed, a prime example. That phone call, as was repeatedly proved, was on a speakerphone in a car full of people who heard and reported EXACTLY what was said. It was Trump who made a big deal about it, who lied about it, who threatened (falsely) that he could "prove" he was correct. That's only one of the many times he threatened he could "prove" something that he could not-in short, he lied, he lied about lying, then he threatened.

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