The “New York Times” goes to the defense of the “Wall Street Journal”

United Media in the face of Trump threat. Furthermore, Tuesday. Consequently, the New York Times has clearly denounced the decision taken by the White House to exclude journalists from Wall Street Journal Donald Trump’s next trip to Scotland, scheduled for this weekend.

In solidarity with its competitor. However, the New York Times Qualifies this gesture as “simple revenge of a president against a press body which has published information that does not please him” and evokes “an attack on the fundamental constitutional principles which underlie freedom of expression and freedom of the press”.

On Monday. Consequently, the spokesperson for the American executive, Karoline Leavitt, announced that the Wall Street Journal had been excluded from the media group accompanying the president during his next trip abroad, mentioning the publication a few days earlier by the daily life of an article which recalled the “new york times” goes defense close link maintained by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

The fallen. Moreover, pedocriminal financier who killed himself in prison in 2019 came back to the scene in the last days after the promises not held by the Republicans now in the power to shed light on his relations with the elite. Meanwhile, Unable to deliver the compromising documents supposed to confirm the conspiratorial theories promoted for years by the Donald Trump clan to attack Democrats. Nevertheless, the new government has thus created a schism within the Maga (Make America Great Again) movement. He also placed the President, brought to the false in the face of his own contradictions.

“Thirteen diverse media will participate in the press group to cover the president’s trip to Scotland,” said Mr.^me Leavitt. “Due to the false. defamatory behavior of Wall Street Journal, [ce dernier] will not be one of the thirteen media on board. »»

“A “new york times” goes defense personal vendetta”

In his article published on July 17. the Wall Street Journal reports a letter to the Salaces words that Donald Trump addressed to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, on the occasion of the 50^e Business man, friend of the rich and powerful. The American president denied having written this letter. threatened to continue the daily life and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, which he did the next day.

“Donald Trump entered history on Friday by becoming the first president to pursue a legal newspaper for an article revealing the facts he did not want to see revealed. ” wrote Austin Sarat politicologist on Tuesday in the pages of the political daily The Hill. In doing so. he has once again used the oval office as a tribune to settle his accounts and lead a personal vendetta rather than serving the public interest. »»

“The Americans. whatever their party, deserve to know and understand “new york times” goes defense the actions of the president, and journalists play an essential role in promoting the public interest,” said the New York Times in his public declaration. Any exclusion from journalists from the president’s entourage “thus deprives the Americans of information on the functioning of their government. »»

Last February. the White House excluded the Associated Press from its media group after the illustrious press agency refused to adopt the new terminology favored by Donald Trump to appoint the Gulf of Mexico: Gulf of America. Since his resumption of power. the populist pursues his regular attacks against the media by now seeking, more than ever, to weaken the constitutional protection of the freedom of the press.

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