Conway: Media is ‘Inciting Mob Mentality if Not Mob Violence’ with Trump Coverage

On Thursday, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway appeared on Fox host Sean Hannity‘s syndicated radio show. During the interview, when Hannity asked if the media at large was being “beyond disrespectful” to President Donald Trump and his staff, Conway wholeheartedly agreed, and she even took it further than Hannity. Specifically, she said that the coverage is “inciting mob mentality if not mob violence.”

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“The coverage never changed [from before Trump was sworn in]. It never progressed, it never matured,” Conway said.

Explaining that she thought protesters largely had “a very low level of literacy” of the issues they were demonstrating in the name of, Conway explained she felt the tone of the coverage of Trump amplifies that anger of the protesters:

“It never took on the aura of respect that it deserved, and if you are not showing the President and his main spokespeople respect, then you’re not showing the office respect, and you are inciting mob mentality if not mob violence. You are encouraging people to go out there and unpeacefully protest and block airport entrances for people who are going to visit a sick parent and can’t make their flight, or are going for a bereavement call and can’t make their flight.”

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