> But what he didn't do was suppress the press, jail the reporters, etc.
See "Four more journalists get felony charges after covering inauguration unrest"[1]. PEN America, Protect Democracy and the Yale Law School Media Freedom and Information Clinic also sued the government because of press suppression[2][3].
I don’t think any of those bullets are strictly untrue. The question is whether in combination they actually demonstrate a serious threat to press freedom relative to other countries.
See "Four more journalists get felony charges after covering inauguration unrest"[1]. PEN America, Protect Democracy and the Yale Law School Media Freedom and Information Clinic also sued the government because of press suppression[2][3].
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/jan/24/journalists-ch...
[2] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/16/trumps-at...
[3] https://pen.org/pen-america-v-trump/