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Trump is baiting the media on free speech and journalists shouldn’t bite

By Tom Rogan
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Trump is baiting the media on free speech and journalists shouldn’t bite

President Trump’s attacks on the media are sad and unbecoming of his office, but the media would do better not to overreact to them.

I raise this concern in the context of President Trump’s response Wednesday to an NBC News report that he asked for a tenfold increase in U.S. nuclear weapons. First, Trump tweeted the following:

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