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The Press, the President and the Danger Zone
Trump's predecessors also tried to manipulate the media and punish leakers. Here's why some did better than others.
Behind enemy lines.
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It didn’t take long for the Trump administration’s political “war” against the media to be replaced by, or merge with, a new one: against legislators and other officials who are pressing harder for a full-scale investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
These are the multiple fronts in a growing conflict that has pitted the president and the tight group around him against what they see as adversaries spread throughout the government -- in the courts, in federal agencies and in Congress.