Journalism group: Trump an ‘unprecedented threat’ to press freedom

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The Committee to Protect Journalists, a press freedom watchdog, on Thursday declared that a Donald Trump presidency would be a threat to press freedom.

The Republican presidential nominee, “through his words and actions as a candidate for president of the United States, has consistently betrayed First Amendment values,” said the group’s chairwoman, Sandra Mims Rowe, in a statement.

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