The New York Times said it was forced to turn to Ireland to help one of its reporters escape imminent arrest in Egypt, because the Trump administration failed to act.
reporting that the newspaper was forced to seek assistance from the Irish government to help one of its reporters—Declan Walsh—out of the country in the face of impending arrest because the Trump administration would not protect him.was tipped off by an unnamed U.S. government official in 2017 that Walsh was at risk of arrest. The official added that the call was being made without the approval of the Trump administration, and that the administration may have intended to allow it to occur.
"Unable to count on our own government to prevent the arrest or help free Declan if he were imprisoned, we turned to his native country, Ireland, for help. Within an hour, Irish diplomats traveled to his house and safely escorted him to the airport before Egyptian forces could detain him," Sulzberger explained.reporter David Kirkpatrick.
Sulzberger criticized the Trumpian trope of"fake news," used by the president and his supporters to smear any critical coverage. Other leaders worldwide, he added, are taking notes. "He has effectively given foreign leaders permission to do the same with their countries' journalists, and even given them the vocabulary with which to do it," Sulzberger argued."They've eagerly embraced the approach."
One such example is Egyptian general-turned-president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who Trump reportedly referred to as"
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