Former GOP Presidential nominee Senator John McCain broke party ranks over the weekend when during an appearance on MSNBC he publicly criticized Donald Trump for his attempt at muting the media.
"I hate the press. I hate you especially. But the fact is we need you. We need a free press. We must have it. It's vital," he told host Chuck Todd during an interview on Meet The Press on Saturday morning, February 18. "If you want to preserve -- I'm very serious now -- if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press."
Todd had been inquiring into McCain's position on Trump's war with the media. After weeks of "fake news" accusations, he exasperated days ago, when he released a tweet naming NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times among news outlets he considers to be "the enemy of the people." McCain denounced Trump's words with about as firm a tone as a member of the government can, stating that hammering such wedges between the people and the press is how a nation's liberties begin to erode and that the behavior Trump has been exhibiting is "how dictators get started."
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