Saturday, June 4, 2022

July 4, 2018: On Independence Day, Trump Lashes Out at the Free Press

 

7/4/18: At a Fourth of July rally in Montana the president celebrates American freedom by lashing out at the free press. 

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“These are really bad people.”

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Here’s what he tells the crowd: 

I see the way they write. They’re so damn dishonest. And I don’t mean all of them, because some of the finest people I know are journalists really. Hard to believe when I say that. I hate to say it, but I have to say it. But 75 percent of those people are downright dishonest. Downright dishonest. They’re fake. They’re fake.

 

They make the sources up. They don’t exist in many cases. These are really bad people.

 

That’s right. A U.S. president just told a crowd that 75% of all the reporters in this country are dishonest. 

We’ve heard this kind of attack before. See if you can guess who said this: “It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.” 

Who said that in his autobiography?


THIS GUY...




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