History behind press attacks

By NANCY BENAC Associated Press
Updated 19 mins ago

... "There has never been a kind of holistic jihad against the news media like Trump is executing," said Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley. "Trump is determined to beat and bloody the press whenever he finds himself in a hole, and that's unique" ...

The president posted a pre-dawn message on his Twitter account Friday ...

"Rush Limbaugh said one of the greatest ever," Trump said in his tweet ...

... Princeton historian Julian Zelizer warned that while Trump may shift attention away from his problems with the drama of such a press conference, "there are some signs that Republicans are getting tired of this" ...

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