Trump and his love affair with fear

Source Summary

The U.S. Department of Justice has declined to subpoena journalists from the New York Times so that they would reveal the sources that explained to them details about the replacement Air Force One that Qatar gifted to President Trump. Some are given jewelry, others airplanes worth 400 million dollars. In this rectification, one should not see the American president's return to the lanes of common sense, which in fact he has never traveled, but surely the fear of putting someone in the White House in an uncomfortable position with the ability to stir things up and point out piles of dirt, or the rest of some corpse. In fact, Trump has initiated a lot of processes against journalists and media outlets, but most have fallen by the wayside because he himself has withdrawn them or had them withdrawn. The objective has never been to seek justice, but to instill fear in professionals. Not only those who see themselves facing the threat of having the entire state machinery - and what a state! - but also the press as a whole, so that the oppressive climate favors self-censorship. In this specific case, FBI agents showed up at the reporters' homes with great fanfare. In other cases, the request for information also affected their direct family members, which constitutes clear blackmail.