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Gary Peters: “You go after the press. You try to delegitimize the press and say it is all fake news.”

On the recordMarch 28, 2017
You go after the press. You try to delegitimize the press and say it is all fake news.
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

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Peters describes tactics used to undermine democracy by attacking the press.

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