Mr. Trump, who suggested revisiting First Amendment protections for the news media during the campaign, refined that attack on Friday, urging his supporters to use their free-speech rights to counter hostile press accounts from outlets like CNN, which he called the “Clinton News Network.”“They always bring up the First Amendment,” Mr. Trump said of journalists. They said he didn’t get a standing ovation — because everybody stood,” Mr. Trump said of his 2011 speech. Mr. Trump was the first president to address the group in his first year in office since Mr. Reagan made an appearance in 1981. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyFriday’s return is especially sweet for Mr. Trump, who had been shunned by the party’s mainstream establishment for years. On Thursday, Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, laid out that new, harder-edged vision for the movement in a rare public appearance.

Source: New York Times February 24, 2017 14:16 UTC