NYT publisher: I told Trump his anti-press rhetoric 'will lead to violence'

[DemocratSinceBirth]

The publisher of The New York Times sat down with President Donald Trump at the White House earlier this month for an off-the-record meeting in which he urged the president to tone down his attacks on the press.

But the meeting didn’t stay off the record for long — and the pleas of the Times’ publisher, A.G. Sulzberger, appeared to have had little effect on Trump, who last week bashed the press during a speech in Missouri and whose White House even barred a CNN reporter from covering an event there.

On Sunday morning, Trump bragged about his meeting with Sulzberger on Twitter, a move that the Times said nullified their off-the-record agreement, freeing him to speak publicly about what he discussed with the president.

"I told the president directly that I thought that his language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous," Sulzberger said in a statement released by the Times about the July 20 meeting at the White House. "I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence."

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/29/trump-new-york-times-sulzberger-747495

[msongs]

1. so why does your newspaper suck up to trump and fascists so much? nt

[wellst0nev0ter]

4. Why should we trust a paper

who does secret deals with the enemy?

[dalton99a]

2. The president of the United States is inciting violence against Americans on a daily basis

and Republicans think it's normal

[lindysalsagal]

3. Since when did a gangster ever fear violence? He's got the biggest military in the world to protect

him and his "family."