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By hinting at retaliation and \u201cchanges\u201d for the press, he pushed beyond the usual partisan complaints into something darker: the suggestion that power might be used to punish coverage he dislikes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Press advocates, including the Committee to Protect Journalists, quickly condemned the remarks as a dangerous escalation. They warned that when leaders frame the media as an enemy to be controlled, not a watchdog to be tolerated, it chills reporting far beyond Washington. 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