It is now up to the free press to call out Donald Trump on his lies

Brandon Hardin asks why the new US administration wants to tell lies that are easily disprovable and use them to go to war on the media
It is now up to the free press to call out Donald Trump on his lies

IN Trump’s first week, we learned that the emperor has no clothes. And it took almost no time for it to become apparent.

Looking like a child in his father’s coat, White House press secretary Sean Spicer took to the podium the day after the inauguration to excoriate journalists for accurately reporting the size of the crowd at President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

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