In a democracy where the federal government is functioning correctly, Donald Trump should never have happened to Fox News.
Democratic governments are supposed to have a separation of powers. Federal Law Enforcement is independent of the president and the executive power. Legal enforcement must be free of political influence to guarantee independence.
Because many Americans are concerned about building a private police and the use of the national guard for civil law enforcement in American cities, which is the most public and prominent example of how law enforcement is politized at the federal level, there are more subtle concentrations and private individuals that are now too many people who are too many people who are too much of the government.
Donald Trump changed the way presidents deal with the press when he made a deliberate decision to limit his interviews to usually friendly conservative media such as Fox News and Newsmax.
The president would no longer be theoretically available for all news broadcasts to sit for interviews or to answer questions. Trump would be on friendly platforms where he can control the discussion.
Trump has created a separate system in which he is not challenged by the press and by extension not responsible for the American people. In his second term, he expanded this system with friendly conservative questioners in the Press Bath of the White House. It is estimated that no fewer than half of the journalists in the White House that covers Trump on a certain day can be part -time conservative media.
The presidency has been reduced to just talking to one group of partisans, and this weakening of accountability, carried out by the destruction of independence within the media and the federal enforcement, was shown when Trump announced that the suspect was in the shooting in Charlie Kirk in custody on Fox News.
