Trump in El Paso
A report from the Boston Globe daily news summary:
While you were sleeping: At his El Paso rally, after Trump whipped up the crowd against journalists once again by calling them “dishonest” and “fake news,” one of his supporters physically attacked journalists in the press area, violently shoving several people, especially a BBC cameraman who almost fell off the raised platform and whose camera the attacker tried to smash while shouting “F— the media.” He was restrained by other reporters until security took him out of the arena. And then Trump had the gall to ask the cameraman if he was all right.
Please don’t be surprised; physical attacks on journalists are inevitable in the wake of Trump’s outrageous and dangerous verbal attacks on the media as “enemies of the people.” Trump supporters routinely spit on, swear at, and make obscene gestures to reporters at Trump rallies. The publisher of The New York Times…
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