Sarah Sanders: No need for Trump to tone down rhetoric following Hasson arrest

[Miles Archer]

Sarah Sanders: No need for Trump to tone down rhetoric following Hasson arrest
The White House press secretary’s defense comes one week after a Coast Guard lieutenant was arrested for allegedly planning to attack journalists and Democratic politicians.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/sarah-sanders-no-need-trump-tone-down-rhetoric-following-hasson-n974576

WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Sarah Sanders dismissed questions on Friday over whether President Donald Trump would tone down attacks on the media following the arrest of Coast Guard Lieutenant Christopher Paul Hasson for allegedly planning to attack journalists and prominent politicians.

“I certainly don't think that the president at any point has done anything but condemn violence against journalists or anyone else,” Sanders said in response to a reporter’s question about whether or not the president thought his hostility towards the press might embolden extremists like Hasson.

“In fact, every single time something like this happens, the president is typically one of the first people to condemn the violence and the media is the first people to blame the president,” Sanders continued.

Since Hasson was arrested on Feb. 15, Trump has tweeted the term “fake news” three times and he has referred to the media as "the enemy of the people" twice on Twitter. On Friday morning, as Sanders was defending the president’s treatment of journalists, Trump retweeted a cartoon of CNN host Wolf Blitzer and wrote “Fake News is so bad for our Country!”

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. For once I agree

Why would he stop doing it when he is getting the exact results he and his boss putin have wanted.

[world wide wally]

2. and on the same day that he lies about how he regards the press, he bars planning clinics from

referring women for abortions. This will allow the Evangelicals to deify him even further.
Side note: He was also named as a perpetrator in an underage sex ring vis a vis Epstein.

With Saints like this, who needs sinners?

[Arazi]

3. When the media lets these lies go unchallenged, they're participating in the propaganda

[onecaliberal]

4. That. Unfortunately, in other news water is wet. We all know this. The corporations will not go

Quietly into the good night. They will not suddenly grow morals or care about anything but their wallets.