"Media organizations making false claims about the Iran conflict were pretty criminal, Trump wrote. On Air Force One, he went further, calling war coverage potentially treasonous and telling one reporter she was a very obnoxious person. ABC News, he declared, was maybe the most corrupt news organization on the planet."
"It was the capstone of a weekend-long pressure campaign against the independent press. Work backward 24 hours and you find FCC Chairman Brendan Carr at Mar-a-Lago on Saturday, fresh from a visit with the president, posting a threat to local broadcasters that sent First Amendment lawyers scrambling."
During the third week of the Iran war, the Trump administration executed a coordinated press offensive targeting independent journalism. Trump issued direct threats against media organizations covering the conflict, calling their reporting potentially treasonous and criminal. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr visited Mar-a-Lago and subsequently threatened broadcasters with license revocation for alleged news distortions. The administration called for a friendly takeover of CNN and attacked ABC News as corrupt. Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson claimed CIA targeting, media companies faced financial pressures, and the press faced unprecedented threats to its independence and First Amendment protections.
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