Journalists Remind Trump of Recent Media Slams After His Kind Words in Wake of Shooting
President Trump unequivocally condemned the Capital Gazette shooting this afternoon and said, “Journalists, like all Americans, should be free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their job.”
But some in the press recalled the past rhetoric the President has used to described the press, particularly “enemy of the people.”
Remains to be seen if this will be the beginning of a change in rhetoric https://t.co/9paiPWuVgF
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) June 29, 2018
“The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!” — Donald Trump, February 2017 https://t.co/QL2CV4yxjE
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 29, 2018
Journalists also should be free from being labeled “enemies of the people.” https://t.co/0VnbG8j6oM
— Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein) June 29, 2018
so are journalists still the “enemy of the people,” then? https://t.co/FqvLEvAXS9
— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) June 29, 2018
Donald Trump, who has repeatedly told his supporters that journalists are “the enemy of the people”, says at the White House: “Journalists, like all Americans, should be free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their job.”
— Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) June 29, 2018
That’s a lax approach to the “enemy of the people” https://t.co/1CNBl9UXVa
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) June 29, 2018
Trump just now: “Journalists, like all Americans should be free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their job.”
Trump has called journalists “the country’s biggest enemy” and “the enemy of people.” That’s just in the last week.
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) June 29, 2018
Oh.
(time-travel edition) https://t.co/xUItjhll2G— David Martosko (@dmartosko) June 29, 2018
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