Retired Navy admiral: Trump's remark about media 'the greatest threat to democracy'
Source: The Hill
Will McRaven, a retired U.S. Navy admiral and University of Texas system chancellor, is pushing back on President Trumps description of the media as the enemy of the American people.
Speaking to a communications college at UT-Austin on Tuesday, McRaven praised the work of the press as necessary to hold others accountable, according to reports.
We must challenge this statement and this sentiment that the news media is the enemy of the American people, McRaven said. This sentiment may be the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime.
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McRaven, who advised former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and oversaw the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, has previously pushed back against Trump's ideas, most recently releasing a statement opposing his immigration order.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/320763-retired-navy-admiral-trumps-remark-that-news-media-is-the-enemy
2014 CNN article on McRaven:
The man who hunted bin Laden, Saddam and the pirates
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/30/opinion/bergen-mcraven-special-forces-influence/
fountainofyouth
(409 posts)Bill McRaven is a legend in the special forces world. Glad that people like him and Mike Mullen are speaking out for democratic values.
Zambero
(8,965 posts)By demonizing the free press as the "enemy to the people", Trump is opening up a Pandora's Box that is chilling in its potential consequences. The Steve Bannon effect of deliberately creating chaos, confusion, and anger is not subtle by any means.
highplainsdem
(49,034 posts)uppityperson
(115,679 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)It is right out of the playbook of Hitler and Goebbels and spewed out by a guy with the maturity of a petulant 13 year old.