Alerts | Verbal attack or intimidation by authorities

Trump attacks media during coronavirus briefing

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US President Donald Trump verbally attacked media outlets and individual journalists at a COVID-19 press conference and, in attempt to deflect criticism, played a campaign-style video produced by his team which argued that the media had downplayed the seriousness of the health crisis

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