Trump Has A Harsher Condemnation For The Media Than For #WhiteSupremacists

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Trump Has A Harsher Condemnation For The Media Than For White Supremacists

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-media-charlottesville_us_599ccdc8e4b0d97c3fffda1a



Trump accused the media “of trying to take away the history and our heritage.”
By Paige Lavender , Roque Planas#


President Donald Trump went after journalists during a campaign-style rally in Phoenix on Tuesday, arguing that the media were “dishonest” in their portrayal of his response to a violent white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The comments came during a meandering, 77-minute speech in which the president hinted that he would pardon controversial sheriff Joe Arpaio, threatened to pull out of NAFTA, and said he might shut down the government if Congress does not fund a wall on the Mexican border.

“The only thing giving a platform to these hate groups is the media itself and the fake news,” Trump said, accusing the media “of trying to take away the history and our heritage.”

“I really think they don’t like our country. I really believe that,” he added.

Trump reread some of his initial response to the deadly rally, notably omitting the phrase “on many sides,” which he used to describe groups inciting violence in Charlottesville. Trump specifically called out antifa, an anti-facist group of protesters, suggesting his initial response to the violence at the white supremacist protest was directed at them.
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“You know where my heart is,” Trump told the crowd.

He went on to hurl often-repeated criticisms of The New York Times and The Washington Post, and specifically called out ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. He lamented CNN’s firing of Jeffery Lord, a contentious pro-Trump commentator. At one point the crowd began chanting, “CNN sucks.”

Just after claiming his “movement is built on love,” Trump motioned to journalists covering the event and paused while the crowd booed.......................................

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. He is actively trying to get his followers to kill journalists or beat them up

This is now an accepted norm coming from the President of the United States.

[ck4829]

2. "They don't like our country", if you're not talking about the people waving swastika flags and

Think the zenith of their collective history was when a country broke off from this country, then you are delusional.