State Department Spox to CNN’s Kosinski: Trump Also Has Right to Free Speech
‘You don’t have to agree with it, others don’t have to agree with it, but that is certainly within [the president’s] own right to do’
Nauert to CNN Reporter: Trump Also Has Right to Free Speech (The Washington Free Beacon)
State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert reminded a CNN reporter on Thursday that President Donald Trump too has freedom of speech when he criticizes the media.
CNN's Michelle Kosinski responded to Nauert speaking on World Press Freedom Day about press freedoms to ask if Trump undermines free press in the United States when he refers to some media as "fake news."
"You had a whole lot to say about press freedom, basically speaking to the world on that," Kosinski said. "So when the President of the United States and those around him repeatedly say the words ‘fake news,’ isn't that disinformation?"
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