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Senator John McCain again called out President Trump for his anti-media rhetoric.

In a tweet Wednesday afternoon, McCain shared a new report from the Committee to Protect Journalists that says the number of journalists imprisoned around the world has reached 262, a new record.

The total includes 21 reporters being held on "false news" charges.

The president "must understand his harmful rhetoric only empowers repressive regimes to jail reporters & silence the truth," McCain wrote.

Trump is known for dismissing press coverage he doesn't like as "fake news."

CPJ's report was highly critical of Trump's tactics.

"President Donald Trump's nationalistic rhetoric, fixation on Islamic extremism, and insistence on labeling critical media 'fake news' serves to reinforce the framework of accusations and legal charges that allow [some foreign] leaders to preside over the jailing of journalists," it reads.

The most common reasons journalists are put behind bars around the world include "anti-state charges" and "broad and vague terror laws," according to the CPJ report.

Turkey has imprisoned the highest number of reporters at 73. China is second with 41.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about McCain's tweet or the CPJ report.

McCain, a Republican from Arizona, has broken ranks with other members of his party and publicly criticized Trump over a variety of issues. He famously blocked passage of Trump's promised Obamacare repeal bill with a dramatic "no" vote. And he's frequently condemned Trump's attacks on the media.

"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," McCain said in a February interview with NBC News. "And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That's how dictators get started."

 

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NBC, CBS and ABC together are 91% negative and fake.
CNN and MSNBC are almost total fake.
McCain is as useless as you and your outdated news which
makes people wonder if you have something we didn't know
already...
 
The FBI is as corrupt, political and biased as the Clintons and
with team Mueller all are together set to take Trump down.
 
Only now Mueller had best clear Trump or worry about clearing
himself.
Kraven posted:
NBC, CBS and ABC together are 91% negative and fake.
CNN and MSNBC are almost total fake.
McCain is as useless as you and your outdated news which
makes people wonder if you have something we didn't know
already...
 
The FBI is as corrupt, political and biased as the Clintons and
with team Mueller all are together set to take Trump down.
 
Only now Mueller had best clear Trump or worry about clearing
himself.

The press is treating Trump rather like the southern press treated Lincoln.  The Democrats are acting like the radical Republicans during Lincoln's administration.  A number of historians consider that they may have been complicit in Lincoln's assassination.

McCain isn't representing the USA or ever Arizona, he is only representing his own hate.  He is a major part of the swamp and Trump threatens his gravy train.  

Who stands up for taxpayers?   Who should stand up against a slanted press?  Just because someone is a good writer doesn't make them smarter than others. 

I have often been to events that when reading the press's report of them wondered if we were at the same event.  

We depend on the press for information, if they pick sides rather than report the facts then we have false info.

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