Republicans round on Trump over Fake News Awards and attacks on free press
Washington — Donald Trump unveiled the winners of his much-touted Fake News Awards late on Wednesday, hours after a maverick senator from the president’s own Republican party accused him of employing Stalinist language to "slur" and undermine the free press. Arizona legislator Jeff Flake levelled the broadside in an address from the Senate floor earlier in the day, delivering a one-two punch after veteran Republican John McCain penned an op-ed assailing Trump’s spoof awards. The brash Republican president announced his top-ten list — which included his regular targets CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post — using his preferred medium of Twitter, linking to a list published on the Republican Party’s website that crashed minutes after his big reveal. Flake slammed what he called the president’s dangerous disregard for the truth, and his designation of the mainstream news media as an "enemy of the people". "Mr President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy tha...
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