{"id":291347,"date":"2017-01-23T20:40:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T19:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-delivers-diatribe-against-press-at-cia-headquarters\/"},"modified":"2017-01-23T20:40:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T19:40:02","slug":"trump-delivers-diatribe-against-press-at-cia-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-delivers-diatribe-against-press-at-cia-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump delivers diatribe against press at CIA headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Trump delivers diatribe against press at CIA headquarters<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Barry Grey<br \/>\n    <br \/>23 January 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>One day after US President Donald Trump delivered an ultranationalist speech at his inaguration, and even as millions in the US and hundreds of thousands more around the world were protesting his inauguration, Trump went to the Langley, Virginia headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency to pledge his \u201clove\u201d and \u201c1,000 percent\u201d support.<\/p>\n<p>The bulk of his rambling remarks, however, consisted of an attack on the media. Trump first accused the press of fabricating a feud between his transition team and the intelligence agencies and then charged it with deliberately underreporting the turnout for his inauguration the previous day. The new administration\u2019s open feud with the corporate-controlled media underscores the degree of conflict and tension within the state as Trump takes office.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s anger is directed in the first instance against an utterly corrupt and subservient corporate-controlled press, which is rightly held in contempt by broad sections of the population because of its role as a purveyor of government lies and propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>The new government, a direct instrument of the financial oligarchy, is nevertheless out to further muzzle the media in order to carry through a violent attack on the democratic rights and social conditions of the working class and prepare bigger and bloodier wars internationally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the reason you\u2019re my first stop,\u201d Trump told the audience of some 400 CIA employees, \u201cis that, as you know, I have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth\u2026 they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just ten days before, Trump had used his first postelection&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/01\/23\/lead-j23.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Trump delivers diatribe against press at CIA headquarters By Barry Grey 23 January 2017 One day after US President Donald Trump delivered an ultranationalist speech at his inaguration, and even as millions in the US and hundreds of thousands more around the world were protesting his inauguration, Trump went to the Langley, Virginia headquarters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-291347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}