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Legendary journalist Dan Rather took the Trump administration to task in a new Substack essay after officials exposed the president’s disinformation playbook. <\/p>\n

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Over the last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has removed multiple journalists from the military newspaper Stars & Stripes over its coverage. President Donald Trump has also called on the FCC to investigate Kristen Welker of NBC News, a move that many have said is designed to further intimidate the press. <\/p>\n

“That dynamic duo of disinformation doesn\u2019t want you to know what\u2019s going on with the thousands of U.S. military members stationed in the Iran theater. Nor do they want you to know the damage inflicted by Iran\u2019s retaliatory attacks,” Rather wrote.<\/p>\n

“Their madness is succeeding,” he added. “Six months in, and we know little about what\u2019s really going on. We hear secondhand accounts from parents of sailors and Marines on an aircraft carrier lacking food and basic necessities. Months after the fact, we are getting bare-bones reports of the destruction of American bases in the Middle East.”<\/p>\n

Rather argued in his essay that the attacks are all part of a three-pronged playbook Trump and his allies use to distort the truth.<\/p>\n

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“The secretary of defense and the equally thin-skinned president live to lie and distort, and their reign of disinformation includes punishing those who are trying to find and report the news,” Rather wrote. “Their get-the-reporter playbook has three main options, all of which we have seen this week: belittle and discredit; threaten and sue (we will get back to those in a minute); and, perhaps the most troublesome, block access.”<\/p>\n

Rather also warned that the sustained attacks on the press portend a foreboding future for America. <\/p>\n

“The Fourth Estate is essential to holding the powerful accountable, especially during Trump\u2019s reign,” he added. “He has gotten rid of or weakened most internal checks on power, like inspectors general and ethics offices, while ignoring norms, rules, and court orders.”<\/p>\n

“To those who think the press is too powerful in our democracy, it needs to be said that what we\u2019re going through now is the price we pay when the press is under sustained attack by a president and his party,” he added.<\/p>\n

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