BREAKING: Maggie Haberman just dropped a blockbuster front-page investigation cataloging exactly how Trump has been using the full power of the federal government to silence the press, and it's a story he desperately did not want written.

The piece, co-authored with Jim Rutenberg, lays it all out in stark terms.

The Justice Department has sent FBI agents to reporters' homes to serve subpoenas, in at least one case flashing a warrant to seize devices. The Pentagon fired the editor and publisher of Stars and Stripes, the military's traditionally independent newspaper, and locked out journalists who refused to sign pledges limiting what they could report. Regulatory agencies have leaned on media companies over their content. Public television and radio funding has been stripped away.

Trump has sued major news organizations personally. The White House seized control of the press pool that follows the president, hand-picking which outlets are allowed access.

And Times reporters investigating security problems with Trump's Qatari-gifted Air Force One were hit with subpoenas of their own, later withdrawn only after it looked like the Justice Department was about to lose in court.

Here's what makes this reporting land even harder.

Trump has spent recent weeks personally attacking Haberman, calling her "unattractive," a "scammer," and a "stalker" after she reported he was skipping the 9/11 ceremony at the World Trade Center because he wouldn't be allowed to give a speech there.

She didn't flinch. She didn't mention the attacks in her story. She just did her job and published the facts.

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