WSJ’s Bret Stephens on Trump: He’s Trying to Silence People

RUSH EXCERPT:
STEPHENS: "We should apply a similar standard when it comes to efforts to do the same by this right-of-center administration to CNN or other news outlets perceived to be left-wing. We’re all constitutionalists. I’m sure my — my friend on the screen also is a constitutionalist. That also means a real respect, above all, for the First Amendment and for understanding just how important — the importance that our founders attached to a free and unfettered press. When you heard Donald Trump saying that there should be no anonymous sources, of course, this is an — this is an effort to send a signal to people in government not to speak, or otherwise to risk terrible penalties. We were critics of the Obama administration for its heavy-handed use of the Espionage Act to go after sources in government and the media. We should again apply the same standards for the Trump administration. And what I fear I hear from a lot of people on the right is, they are giving Trump a pass for his fake news, for his constant perpetration of lies, while being savage about mistakes made by the press, which are in a different category altogether, not intended, as you said, to deceive."