Weekend Herald

Trump hits back at media

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President Donald Trump has called the United States’ press “the opposition party” after more than 300 newspapers came together to rebuke his attacks on the media. He accused the Boston Globe, which called for the nationwide denounceme­nt, of being “in collusion” with other papers. The paper had pledged to write an editorial on Thursday “on the dangers of the Administra­tion’s assault on the press”, and asked others to do the same. Around 350 papers heeded the call, including the New York Times and the New York Post. Waking up to the editorials, the President used Twitter to present himself as at war with the press: “THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA IS THE OPPOSITION PARTY. It is very bad for our Great Country . . . BUT WE ARE WINNING!”, he said.

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