The Trump administration has unleashed a multifaceted pressure campaign against news organizations
It increasingly bristles at media coverage of the Middle East military operation that many Americans oppose.
Official Pentagon briefings now include attacks on outlets like CNN -- with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth nit-picking headlines.
Trump is turning to Truth Social to accuse “Highly Unpatriotic ‘News’ Organizations” of airing “LIES” about the war and musing about
👉 “Charges for TREASON.”
The goal seems to be pressuring journalists to back off critical coverage of the war effort,
And encouraging the public to second-guess reporting that runs counter to the administration’s preferred narrative.
The effort has gone well beyond words.
Trump’s top media regulator, Brendan Carr of the Federal Communications Commission, issued an explicit warning to broadcast television networks on social media, writing that
“hoaxes and news distortions”
could lead to 🔥 revocation of licenses for local stations,
a threat that Trump said he was “so thrilled to see.”