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

[UpInArms]

Source: NBC News

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.

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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!”

Trump has yet to publicly condemn Hasson.

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Prosecutors said that Hasson "compiled a list of prominent Democratic Congressional leaders, activists, political organizations, and MSNBC and CNN media personalities." Included in Hasson’s list were MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough, Chris Hayes and Ari Melber, and CNN's Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo and Van Jones. His list also included Democratic party leaders and well-known lawmakers such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna974576

[TeamPooka]

1. Fuck Sarah Sanders. Hopefully she will be on trial someday. Probably in Nuremberg.

[47of74]

2. Hopefully we won't be as devastated as Germany was at the time of the post WW II trials.

[47of74]

3. Of course not. Hassan is one of Fuck Face's very fine people.

Why does shit like this always happen after I write a letter to the editor. I could have torn the GOP a new one over the new terrorist of the week in the local paper.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. His lawyer diGenova is advocating shooting people because Empire dude pushed off by Hasson

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211852389

excerpt:

DiGenova joined Laura Ingraham on her latest podcast, where she bemoaned how the news about arrested Coast Guard lieutenant Christopher Hasson takes oxygen away from Jussie Smollett and the troubles in Virginia’s state government. This became the basis for a segment from Ingraham’s Fox show later in the evening.

When Ingraham asked diGenova for his thoughts on whether there’s a connection between Hasson and President Donald Trump, he grumbled about Virginia’s leaders “getting a pass” because of the decreasing media focus on them. Soon enough, diGenova went all out and declared “We are in a civil war in this country.”

“There’s two standards of justice, one for Democrats one for Republicans. The press is all Democrat, all liberal, all progressive, all left – they hate Republicans, they hate Trump. So the suggestion that there’s ever going to be civil discourse in this country for the foreseeable future in this country is over. It’s not going to be. It’s going to be total war. And as I say to my friends, I do two things – I vote and I buy guns.”

Why does diGenova buy guns? Not for deer-hunting.

[DirtEdonE]

5. If lies were cotton balls

The huckabeast would have choked on cotton balls months ago.

How the hell can she face herself, no less her children?

And waiting for the traitor-in-chief to condemn one of his own militia is a tragic waste of time, IMO.

[Dave Starsky]

9. If lies were corn flakes...

Sarah Huckabee would be Kellogg's.

[dustyscamp]

6. SHS deserves to have her picture beside the word "bitch" in the dictionary

[politicaljunkie41910]

7. Sanders said, "I certainly don't think...." and should have just left it there because every else

she said that came afterwards was a lie as usual.

“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.

[Bayard]

8. At what point.....

Is Sarah's pants going to catch on fire?

[dameatball]

10. Sheesh. When is SHS going to land a new job? I thought she was leaving a while back.

I saw where Spicer finally found a new gig at some place I never heard of.