The president’s ban of three media outlets from the White House fits a pattern of using the apparatus of government to crack down on his perceived enemies.

President said he was banning journalists from those organizations, saying of their coverage: ‘You get sick of it.’Journalists from three US outlets were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday morning a day after Donald Trump said he would ban them from the executive branch complex in a move that has prompted outrage and shock from free-speech advocates.The outlets were television broadcasters MS Now and CNN as well as the political news website Politico. Continue reading...