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Opinion: Where another Trump presidency could take America
Jun 22, 2021 1 min, 6 secs
So did White House lawyer Don McGahn, and at least eight journalists who cover national security, including CNN's Barbara Starr.

The targeting of journalists, prosecutors and opposition politicians by the Trump administration is consistent with the behind-the-scenes actions of foreign autocrats, as is the clandestine digging into the personal lives of individuals in their inner circle who won't break the law for them.

That McGahn's wife's communications records were also seized is typical -- and striking, in an American context -- anti-democratic behavior.

"Find the leakers within the FBI itself....FIND NOW," Trump ordered (presumably) his subordinates via a tweet in 2017.

As we now know, the White House was in war mode to foil investigations into communications between Trump's campaign and Russia, and cover up other misdeeds as well.

Given the air of panic that pervades Trump's many public comments on leaks and leakers, it's not surprising to learn that the Justice Department seized phone records of The New York Times and The Washington Post reporters (as well as Starr's) covering this very period.

This is yet another legacy, he concludes, of Trump's "relentless four-year assault on the free press."

Just ask Russian journalists where the demonization of journalists can lead.

If Trump returns to the White House in 2024, such clandestine actions by the Department of Justice could become the norm.

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