Ex-Washington Post Editor: The Incoming Trump Administration Is ‘Salivating for the Opportunity to Prosecute Journalists’

RUSH EXCERPT:

BARON: "Well, they have a lot of tools in their toolbox, and I think they will use every single one of them. That‘s already evident from the measures that they are promising to take. I think they are salivating for the opportunity to prosecute journalists for leaks of supposed national security information. I think that they‘ve already threatened to revoke the licenses for stations affiliated with some of the major networks they are already, as you mentioned, uh, likely to sue, uh, a lot of a lot of media outlets for supposed defamation and other supposed offenses. I suspect a lot of the wealthy allies of Donald Trump will underwrite those those lawsuits. I suspect that they will deny information to major media outlets routinely. I suspect that they will threaten advertisers for major media outlets as well. So they will do everything to undermine public confidence in the press, to further undermine public confidence in the press, and to undermine its economic sustainability."