President Donald Trump was questioned about the Epstein files and responded with “Quiet. Quiet, piggy.” This is wrong in so many ways.

The first is the attempt to silence a journalist. Without a free and reliable news media a democracy won’t be able to operate safely.

There are far too many journalists who have been killed because of their work, although not even a single journalist should be attacked. Words are another form of attack and shouldn’t be used against an individual.

The second is the use of words to insult an individual. He has labelled so many people as being of “low IQ” even though they were lawyers and politicians. The simplicity of his insults and the invention of his own words, who can forget “Covfefe,” doesn’t improve his image.

It is ok to criticise what reporters w

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