George W Bush breaks silence to attack Donald Trump’s war on the media

‘Former President George W Bush has said an independent press is “indispensable to democracy” when asked if he agreed with Donald Trump that the media was the “enemy of the people”.
The 43rd President said it was important for a free press to hold power to account, and that lecturing other countries on freedom of expression would become more difficult if “we’re not willing to have one ourselves”.
Asked on NBC’s Today programme whether, as he faced harsh criticism during his time in office, he ever considered the media “to be the enemy of the American people”, he said: “I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy.
“We need an independent media to hold people like me to account.’
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