Biden persecutes journalists — Wapo

Worse than Trump, even with a progressive discount coupon.

After Biden took office, the department continued to pursue subpoenas for reporters’ email logs issued to Google, which operates the New York Times’ email systems, and it obtained a gag order compelling a Times attorney to keep silent about the fact that federal authorities were seeking to seize his colleagues’ records. Later, when the Justice Department broadened the number of those permitted to know about the effort, it barred Times executives from discussing the legal battle with the Times newsroom, including the paper’s top editor.

This escalation, on Biden’s watch, represents an unprecedented assault on American news organizations and their efforts to inform the public about government wrongdoing.

Washington Post editorial

Reality is burning through the narrative. Biden may not be a nice man at all. War has come back to MENA. Prices are up. The coronavirus origin story is in doubt. Even those who hated Trump must be asking: did we jump from the frypan to the fire?