Oversight

Journalism Is Under Direct Threat in the 2020 Election

Going into Trump’s reelection bid, his allies are already preparing a smear campaign against the press — no surprise, given his administration’s severe injustices against press freedoms

Trevor Timm
GEN
Published in
4 min readAug 29, 2019

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President Donald Trump talks to journalists as he departs the White House for a campaign rally in Pennsylvania May 20, 2019
President Donald Trump talks to journalists as he departs the White House for on May 20, 2019. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty

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Trevor Timm
GEN
Writer for

Trevor Timm is the executive director of Freedom of the Press Foundation. His writing has appeared the New York Times, the Guardian, and the Intercept.