Democrat-leaning Rachel Maddow believes the incoming president will try to stifle press freedom in the US
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has warned that President-elect Donald Trump will try to stifle free press in the US upon returning to the White House. On ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ on Thursday, the Democrat-leaning TV host and outspoken Trump critic slammed the incoming president as an “authoritarian” who could end democracy in the US.
Maddow claimed that Trump and his administration will try to turn the media, which she called “the fourth estate” and “pillar of our democracy,” into “state TV.” She warned that US media could then become an “American-accented version of RT.”
“These guys… will inevitably start picking off individual journalists, publishers and news organizations to try ultimately to turn us all into some American-accented version of RT,” she stated, adding that the news outlet is “a reason actions of the Russian Duma never make news.” Maddow went on to call on the US public to “actively resist” the new administration if it starts attacks on the media.
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