President Trump strode to the lectern in the White House briefing room Thursday and, for just over an hour, attacked his rivals, dismissing Democratic presidential candidate What he did not do was offer any sympathy for the 2,081 Americans who were reported dead from the coronavirus on that day alone — among more than 54,000 Americans who have perished since the pandemic began. Continue reading.
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Trump’s eruption at an NBC reporter says it all about his alternate reality on coronavirus
At the daily news briefing, Trump played up the promise of a malaria drug to possibly treat the coronavirus. He was asked about its application to other similar diseases like severe acute respiratory syndrome, for which he said he thought the drug had been “fairly effective.”
But then Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s leading immunologist, stepped in to qualify things. Continue reading.
Judge orders White House to reinstate Acosta’s press credentials
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate press credentials for Jim Acosta, CNN’s chief White House correspondent.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, who was appointed to the bench by President Trump, granted CNN’s request to restore the press pass for Acosta, giving him regular access to the White House grounds to cover events and press conferences.
“I want to emphasize the very limited nature of this ruling,” Kelly said Friday in granting the temporary restraining order in favor of CNN.
View the complete November 16 article by Lydia Wheeler on The Hill website here.
Man threatened to kill Boston Globe reporters, called them ‘enemy of the people’
The following article by Luke Barnes was posted on the ThinkProgress.org website August 30, 2018:
Robert Chain allegedly also had an arsenal of weapons.
A 68-year-old California man has been arrested by the FBI for making repeated threatening phone calls against staff of the Boston Globe in which he said he would kill them and labeled them “the enemy of the people.”
Robert Chain, from Encino, California, began calling the Globe’s office on August 10th, after the newspaper announced that it was partnering with dozens of other media outlets across the country to launch a coordinated editorial response to President Trump’s repeated political attacks on the media.
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BREAKING / NBC News: The FBI has arrested Robert Chain, 68, from Encino, California for threats they say he made to The Boston Globe following their recent editorial about the press.
Chain allegedly referred to the Boston Globe as “the enemy of the people” in phone calls.
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NBC News: According to the criminal complaint Chain threatened to travel to The Boston Globe and kill newspaper employees.
Here’s what the FBI says is a transcript of one of his recorded calls: pic.twitter.com/XDNu2rDTSE
According to the criminal complaint, Chain made approximately 12 calls in a week, in which he repeatedly threatened the workers at the Globe. “We are going to shoot you motherfuckers in the head, you Boston Globe cocksuckers,” Chain allegedly said on August 13th. “Shoot every fucking one of you.” Chain also repeatedly referred to the Globe as “the enemy of the people” and promised to continually harass and threaten the Globe “as long as you keep attacking the President, the duly elected President of the United States.”
Trump responds after hundreds of newspaper editorials criticize his attacks on the press
The following article by Lindsey Bever and Cleve R. Wootson, Jr., was posted on the Washington Post website August 16, 2018:
In a coordinated response to President Trump, hundreds of U.S. newspapers published editorials defending press freedom on Aug. 16. (Reuters)
Hundreds of newspaper editorial boards across the country answered a nationwide call Thursday to express disdain for President Trump’s attacks on the news media, while some explained their decision not to do so. The same morning, the president tweeted that the “fake news media” are the “opposition party.”
The editorials came after the Boston Globe’s editorial board called on others to use their collective voice to respond to Trump’s war of words with news organizations in the United States.
Trump has labeled the news media “the enemy of the American people” and called much of the coverage “fake news.”
Free Press Gets a Boost With Senate Resolution Declaring It Is Not the Enemy
The following article by Niels Lesniewski was posted on the Roll Call website August 16, 2018:
Action comes on same day newspapers coordinate on free press message
The Senate on Thursday went on record declaring “that the press is not the enemy of the people” — a rebuke to President Donald Trump, who declares the opposite on a regular basis.
Senators adopted by unanimous consent a resolution from Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer of New York to declare the Senate’s support for a free press and the First Amendment protections afforded to journalists.
The resolution text was released the same day 350 newspapers ran editorials designed to push back on Trump’s criticisms of the media.
More than 100 newspapers will condemn Trump’s attacks on the media
The following article by Alison Durkee was posted on the Mic.com website August 13, 2018:
Following an appeal from the Boston Globe, more than 100 publicationsnationwide are preparing to decry President Donald Trump’s characterization of the media as an “enemy of the people.”
The Globe is reaching out to newspaper editorial boards to publish opinion pieces Thursday defending journalism, as part of a coordinated response to Trump’s repeated attacks on the media, which he frequently refers to as “fake news.”
“This dirty war on the free press must end,” the Globe’s appeal said, the Guardian reported. “Publications, whatever their politics, could make a powerful statement by standing together in the common defense of their profession and the vital role it plays in government for and by the people.”
Media boost security as Trump ramps up ‘enemy’ rhetoric
The following article by Jason Schwartz was posted on the Politico website August 9, 2018:
TV networks are employing security guards at the president’s high-octane rallies.
Carl Bernstein Details Trump’s ‘Demonstrable’ Russia Cover-Up: ‘He Wants Our Credibility Destroyed Because We’re Reporting the Truth’
The following article by Elizabeth Preza was posted on the AlterNet website July 29, 2018:
“[Keeping the base] energized against the press is absolutely essential to Donald Trump fighting and furthering the cover-up.”
Legendary Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein on Sunday laid out Donald Trump’s “demonstrable” cover-up, telling CNN’s Brian Stelter that the president wants the media’s “credibility destroyed because we are reporting the truth.”
Bernstein on Friday reported Cohen’s claim that Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and Russian nationals offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. Per the CNN report, Cohen is willing to “make that assertion to special counsel Robert Mueller.”
Speaking with Stelter on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Bernstein compared the Russia investigation to Watergate, explaining that he and his reporters are “making judgements about what is news” while those in power attempt to discredit the sources.
Trump’s favorite conspiracy theorist joins his attacks on CNN
The following article by Oliver Willis was posted on the ShareBlue.com website July 27, 2018:
Trump and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones are both smearing CNN this week and pushing a fake story that conservatives are being ‘silenced.’
Less than 48 hours after Trump banned a CNN reporter from covering a White House event just for asking a question, his ally and informal adviser Alex Jones joined him in attacking the news network.
On Wednesday, after CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins asked Trump a series of questions during a press availability, Trump’s new deputy communications director Bill Shine personally banned Collins from covering another supposedly open press event later that day.
Taking his cue from the administration’s hostility to the free press — Trump prefers sycophantic outlets like Fox News — Jones followed suit with his own attacks on CNN.