Tapper Chastises Trump About Blacklisting Des Moines Register

Celebrity plutocrat Donald Trump kicked the Des Moines Register out of his campaign events in retaliation for the paper’s editorial imploring him to drop out of the race. On Sunday morning, State of the Union host Jake Tapper asked if he could please not.

“I would just, as a fellow reporter, like to make a plea for my brothers and sisters who are journalists, if you could not hold them responsible for what the editorial writers write, that would be great,” Tapper said.

What followed was relatively non-insulting by Trump standards, and also semi-incoherent:

This is a failing paper that’s treated me extremely wrong. They’ve lied in many stories…It has very little power. It’s failing badly, and frankly, they’re not good people. But I agree with you. That’s called a little bit of the freedom of the press thing.

But, this was the paper that, you know, when they lie a lie and lie and knowingly lie, you say, well, let’s just not — and they can go in!Tthey just have to sit with everybody else. They just don’t give them credentials. But I understand what you’re saying.

Great points all around.

Watch the clip below, via CNN:

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