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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Nov 2, 2018, 06:04 PM Nov 2018

Trump To Reporters: 'You're Creating Violence By Your Questions'

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, you’re 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 I’ll tell you what, if the media would write correctly and write accurately and write fairly, you’d have a lot less violence in the country.”

Trump’s 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.




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SWBTATTReg

(22,044 posts)
2. Not mentally stable or insane. Congress or the cabinet, do your duty to Country. Remove this
Fri Nov 2, 2018, 06:12 PM
Nov 2018

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.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
4. In this case, I very much agree with Trump
Fri Nov 2, 2018, 06:15 PM
Nov 2018

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.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
6. Media folks: Are you getting tired of it yet?
Fri Nov 2, 2018, 06:39 PM
Nov 2018

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

(44,972 posts)
7. If Trump really wanted, he could kick the press out
Fri Nov 2, 2018, 06:53 PM
Nov 2018

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)
8. He's such a child.
Fri Nov 2, 2018, 07:05 PM
Nov 2018

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)
9. Because they are so afraid of being called "biased" by the right wing.
Fri Nov 2, 2018, 07:37 PM
Nov 2018

Even when the objective reality is that Trump is a pathological liar.

Eko

(7,223 posts)
10. This is so dangerous.
Fri Nov 2, 2018, 08:11 PM
Nov 2018

I cant state that enough. We need to take this extremely serious, this is how we would loose Democracy in the US.

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