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By Nicole Lafond
November 2, 2018 3:15 pm
President Donald Trump took his enemy of the people diatribe a step further on Friday, accusing fake news and reporters of creating violence by their questions.
No, no, you know what, youre creating violence by your questions, he said. You are creating, you. And also a lot of the reporters are creating violence by not writing the truth. The fake news is creating violence.
And you know what? he continued. The people that support Trump and the people that support us, which is a lot of people, most people, many people, those people know when a story is true and they know when a story is false. And Ill tell you what, if the media would write correctly and write accurately and write fairly, youd have a lot less violence in the country.
Trumps comments follow days of intense criticism for his divisive, and often violent rhetoric against the media and his critics. Some have linked his tone to recent attacks, like the pipe bombs that were sent through the mail to high-level Democrats including the Obamas and the Clintons and the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue over the weekend.
Link to tweet
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-reporters-youre-creating-violence
Fullduplexxx
(7,857 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,112 posts)unstable nut (I hate using the word 'nut' but in his case, I'll make an exception).
What scares me now is that he'll order the military to fire on protesters in the US. Using excessive force like he's advocated before.
PSPS
(13,590 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Fake news is creating violence.
Their fake news. The original and REAL fake news.
The news that repeats Trump's words and imbues them with truth, when in fact his repertoire of lies exceeds anything anyone else has ever encountered.
The news that reports flimsy conspiracy theories as established facts.
The news that ignores and fails to report actual, real events in real time, caught on film, authentic, genuine and timely.
Their fake news is creating the violence, by design.
And that's not fake, nor news.
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Do you like being targeted by Needy Amin and set up for his demented, violent fanboiz? Are you, at long last, going to call him out on this inflammatory rhetoric? Are you going to refuse to cover him and deny him the publicity he craves? Or are you going to just keep writing it all down, nodding sagely, and wait for an all star panel on one of the chucktodd shows to have a thoughtful discussion about just how directly Trump is calling for your murders?
C_U_L8R
(44,998 posts)That's how we know he's so disingenuous. So full of shit.
He rants to the press about the press.
Trump would whither in a vacuum without the press
there to cover his dementia-riddled egomania.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)And, of course, NOBODY in the press will stand up to this brat when he says crapola like this. They just let him get away with it.
Ohio Barbarian
(43 posts)Even when the objective reality is that Trump is a pathological liar.
Eko
(7,281 posts)I cant state that enough. We need to take this extremely serious, this is how we would loose Democracy in the US.
Cha
(297,149 posts)of red tie.