Trump treads further on free speech with new journalist bans

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On Friday, the president threatened to prohibition CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House. It could person conscionable been different 1 of his Truth Social fever dreams, but it turns retired it's precise real. All 3 publications were turned distant from the White House this morning, NPR reports, marking an escalation successful the administration's warfare connected the First Amendment.

Politico tried to get to the bottommost of it, asking why now? It reports that "many elder [White House] unit were amazed by the directive" (what's new?), and that it was done "while main of unit Susie Wiles was retired of town." Apparently he's been talked down from this benignant of sweeping mov …

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