'Naked Attack on the Free Press': Trump Allies Reportedly Raising $2 Million for Campaign to Discredit Journalists
Right-wing operatives allied with President Donald Trump are attempting to raise at least $2 million to fund a campaign to discredit journalists and editors at major U.S. media outlets like the Washington Post, Buzzfeed, New York Times, and HuffPost.
That’s according to a three-page fundraising pitch for the effort reviewed by Axios, which reported Tuesday that the group of Trump allies “claims it will slip damaging information about reporters and editors to ‘friendly media outlets,’ such as Breitbart, and traditional media, if possible.”
One person involved in raising funds for the campaign, according to Axios, is Republican operative Arthur Schwartz, an informal adviser to Donald Trump Jr. and aggressive defender of the White House.
Critics were quick to raise alarm about the project. Justin Hendrix, executive director of tech organization NYC Media Lab, called the effort “a naked attack on the free press.”
Axios reported that the fundraising effort is a sign that “Trump’s war on the media is expanding.”
“The prospectus for the new project,” according to Axios, “says it’s ‘targeting the people producing the news.'”
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