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

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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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