Hillary Clinton Says Free Press Is Under ‘Open Assault’ in Trump Era
Hillary Clinton speaks at the 14th Annual PEN World Voices Festival at The Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York City on April 22.
Photographer: Mark Sagliocco/Getty ImagesNew York (AP) -- Hillary Clinton excoriated President Donald Trump for his treatment of the media, saying in remarks on Sunday that press rights and free speech are "under open assault" in the current administration, which she compared to an authoritarian regime.
"We are living through an all-out war on truth, facts and reason," Clinton said at the PEN America World Voices Festival, in Manhattan. "When leaders deny things we can see with our own eyes, like the size of a crowd at the inauguration, when they refuse to accept settled science when it comes to urgent challenges like climate change ... it is the beginning of the end of freedom, and that is not hyperbole. It's what authoritarian regimes through history have done."