DARE: U.S. Senate Unanimously Passes Resolution Affirming the Press ‘is Not the Enemy of the People’
U.S. Senate passes resolution affirming that "the press is not the enemy of the people." Trump claims "collusion" by media outlets nationwide that each published their own editorial in… More
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