washington conflict between us president donald trump and the countrys liberal media and intelligence principals dubbed the deep state worsened on thursday after the white house revoked the security clearance of a former cia director served a warning to other former officials and in a coordinated editorial campaign more than 300 news publications across america denounced trumps attacks on the pressboth actions were unprecedented in the countrys history and pointed to a deepening crisis in the largely selfprofessed greatest countrygreatest democracy in the world in fact in the middle of a increasingly toxic clash between protrump republicans and the liberal order that generally has had the upper hand in us politics one prominent democrat new york governor andrew cuomo went so far as to say america was never that great as he mocked trumps make america great again campaignthe putdown caused trump to deride cuomo of having a total meltdown even as the president himself continued to scorch the media and the opposition on twitter his medium to reach some 53 million followersthere is nothing that i would want more for our country than true freedom of the press the fact is that the press is free to write and say anything it wants but much of what it says is fake news pushing a political agenda or just plain trying to hurt people honesty wins trump wrote on thursday morning after more than 300 news publications across the country joined hands to defend a free press and denounce his attacks on the news mediathe project was spearheaded by staff members of the editorial page at the boston globe who wrote this relentless assault on the free press has dangerous consequences we asked editorial boards from around the country liberal and conservative large and small to join us today to address this fundamental threat in their own words what followed was an acrossthenation denunciation of the president even as he tweeted the fake news media is the opposition party it is very bad for our great countrythe globe editorialists maintained that the coordinated editorial project is not against the trump administrations agenda but a response to put us into the public discourse and defend the first amendment while calling attention to a president who has called journalists sick disgusting and among the most dishonest human beings on earth even as his supporters have intimated them at campaign rallies and the white house has blacklisted criticsbut trump was unrepentant about the confrontation going on to accuse the globe and the new york times of colluding to attack him the boston globe which was sold to the failing new york times for 13 billion dollars plus 800 million dollars in losses investment or 21 billion dollars was then sold by the times for 1 dollar now the globe is in collusion with other papers on free press prove it he tweetedthe firestorm involving the media came after trump scorched former us intelligence honchos revoking the security clearance