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Editorial: Trump and the press

You may have read that, this week, scores of U.S. newspapers are responding in independently written editorials to President Trump's many attacks on journalists as enemies - his word - of the American people.

As this became a national news story, we at the Tribune Editorial Board had two choices: We could stay silent and leave you wondering what message to read into that, or we could explain in our own words the dangers

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