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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump accuses the press of ‘illegal’ reporting in Justice Department remarks

Donald Trump continued his assault on the press in front of the nation’s top federal law enforcement officials on Friday while taking a victory lap against a justice system that failed to hold him to account.

In remarks at the Department of Justice, which presidents typically avoid to preserve the independence of the work of law enforcement agencies, Trump labelled news outlets with adversarial coverage of his administration “political arms of the Democratic party.”

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