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Trump escalated his fight with The Wall Street Journal on July 21 by banning one of the paper’s reporters from an upcoming Scotland trip after already suing over the Epstein story. It was a classic Trump move: instead of shrinking the controversy, he widened it, keeping attention on the underlying allegations and handing critics a fresh example of press intimidation.
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Trump escalated his fight with The Wall Street Journal on July 21 by banning one of the paper’s reporters from an upcoming Scotland trip after already suing over the Epstein story. It was a classic Trump move: instead of shrinking the controversy, he widened it, keeping attention on the underlying allegations and handing critics a fresh example of press intimidation.
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Trump escalated his fight with The Wall Street Journal on July 21 by banning one of the paper’s reporters from an upcoming Scotland trip after already suing over the Epstein story. It was a classic Trump move: instead of shrinking the controversy, he widened it, keeping attention on the underlying allegations and handing critics a fresh example of press intimidation.
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