Three years into his presidency, Donald Trump is not giving up on his Orbán-like ambition to discipline and control independent media. jonathanchait writes
Photo: The Washington Post/Getty Images President Trump has made two major attempts to use his power to intimidate and control independent media. The second attempt was his intervention to deny Amazon a $10 billion Pentagon contract as retribution against the Washington Post. The first was ordering the Justice Department to block an AT&T merger, in order to punish CNN.
CNN is a subject of Trump’s obsessive anger. During the campaign, he publicly opposed its merger, a position that pointedly contrasted with his general indifference to antitrust issues and corporate consolidation.
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