Marty Baron: It’s a ‘Pattern,’ Trump Wants to Dictate Who Asks a Question and What Questions Are Appropriate to Even Ask

RUSH EXCERPT:
BARON: "Well, it’s part of a pattern. You’ve got a president who not only tells wants to dictate, who asks him a question, asks him questions, but what questions are appropriate to even ask? You know, that’s a that’s a president who really does not respect an independent press, which is provided for in the Constitution of this country, who does not really respect free expression. Look, I mean, the job of the press is to ask the president questions. In this instance, he is the most powerful person in the world. He has an enormous impact on the lives of ordinary people, and it’s entirely appropriate for a Reporter to be asking what happened in that meeting. And as is often the case, Trump merely denied the. Actual facts and claims that things. Are fake news, when. In fact we later learned that they’re entirely true."