Maryland shooting: Trump ducks questions over Capital Gazette killings, as president's ....

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Source: The Independent

on journalists come into focus.


Donald Trump ignored questions about the killing of five people at a newspaper in Maryland, walking silently past reporters at the White House as they asked him for "any words about the dead".

The president did not respond when asked for "any words of condolence" for families of the victims of the shooting at the Capital Gazette's offices in Annapolis on Thursday.

Police said a man with a grudge against the local paper had opened fire using a shotgun in a "targeted attack" which killed four journalists and a sales assistant.

Five victims of Capital Gazette newspaper shooting namedJarrod Ramos, 38, lost a defamation lawsuit against the paper in 2012 after it reported his campaign of harassment against a woman he went to school with.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/maryland-shooting-trump-reaction-video-questions-capital-gazette-fake-news-journalists-killed-a8422451.html

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[truthisfreedom]

1. The orange snowflake can't take the heat.

[Achilleaze]

2. Weakling (R)

the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief* is a coward and a weakling, acts like a bully when he can to try and hide his gutlessness. Sad.

* aka Dirty Donny, republican family-values role model

[yallerdawg]

3. Getting into weekend holiday mode.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. "... when your fanbase wears a shirt like this, ... you are sitting in the getaway car."

ThisIsNotNormalHat Retweeted:

Maybe you're not directly responsible for the #Annapolis shooting but when your fanbase wears a shirt like this, and you constantly vilify the media you are sitting in the getaway car.

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[oberliner]

5. Somebody put out a "thoughts and prayers" tweet for him

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Trump manufactures his own FAKE NEWS

this is a war for the truth based on shouting rather than on facts