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(34,195 posts)
Thu Aug 2, 2018, 11:24 PM Aug 2018

Trump blasts media amid chants of 'CNN sucks'

Source: The Hill

After a day of tension between the White House and CNN, the crowd at President Trump’s Pennsylvania rally on Thursday night broke out into chants of “CNN sucks” when the president blasted "fake news."

The crowd responded with boos and jeers, with some chanting, “CNN sucks.”

Trump later returned to the issue of the media during the rally, asking, "Whatever happened to fair press? Whatever happened to honest reporting?" He also referred to the media as "horrible, horrendous people" and "disgusting."

The rally took place just hours after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to say the media is not the enemy of the people during a press briefing ...

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/400190-boos-for-cnn-break-out-at-trump-rally

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dalton99a

(81,516 posts)
5. CNN may have to hire bodyguards for their employees
Thu Aug 2, 2018, 11:40 PM
Aug 2018

because an American president is inciting violence against them

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
6. republicans have descended into Total Hateful Darkness
Fri Aug 3, 2018, 05:14 AM
Aug 2018

To back the deceitful and hate-mongering republican Draft-Dodging Casino Hustling traitor, you must be lowlife yourself. He will have more blood on his hands.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
7. So, if the media is the enemy of the people,
Fri Aug 3, 2018, 07:15 AM
Aug 2018

and it is proven that Trump's Tweets incite violence, why doesn't Twitter suspend Trump from Tweeting? Wouldn't that cure a lot of evils? If Trump's Tweets gets journalists killed, Twitter is an accomplice. I say Twitter needs to suspend Trump from Tweeting.

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