BREAKING: NY Times refuses to back down as Trump’s DOJ sends federal agents to reporters’ homes
Trump’s Justice Department just crossed a line that should alarm every American, and The New York Times is refusing to be intimidated.
Federal agents showed up at the homes of multiple Times journalists this week, serving subpoenas that demand they appear before a grand jury in New York City. Their offense? Reporting the truth about Trump’s $400 million Qatari-gifted Air Force One.
The four reporters, Julian Barnes, Tyler Pager, Eric Schmitt and Eric Lipton, revealed that Trump left the NATO summit in Turkey on the old Air Force One at the direction of the Secret Service, because the luxury jet Qatar handed him lacks basic security features like antimissile capabilities. Trump claimed he flew the old plane “for old times’s sake.”
The Times fired back immediately. Attorney David McCraw said the sight of federal agents on reporters’ doorsteps “should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects,” calling the subpoenas a brazen attempt to stop the public from knowing what is happening in their own country.
Trump has spent his second term waging open war on the press, suing outlets, restricting White House access, branding reporters “treasonous,” and even suggesting one journalist could go to jail over Iran coverage.
But here is the part Trump doesn’t want you to remember. His DOJ tried this same intimidation play against The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal earlier this year. Both outlets fought back. Both times, the subpoenas were withdrawn.
The New York Times is now standing in that same fight, and history says the bully backs down when the press refuses to blink.
