“So many of the media allegations against President Trump and his administration are overwrought and, in many respects, utterly dishonest. To read their daily blitzkrieg of outrages . . . you would think that the president has corruptly used the instrumentalities of his office and executive authority in ways unimagined by past presidents and administrations. But in truth, he has done no such thing.”147 Levin had a valid point. John Adams had signed a sedition law to muzzle journalists and ordered the prosecution of those who defied it. Abraham Lincoln had shut down newspapers and jailed
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