President Donald Trump called the so-called “fake news media” the “real enemy of the people” on the heels of his multi-day clarifications of statements regarding Russia and election meddling and following his widely-panned press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week.
His comments also come less than a month after he said members of the press should be “free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their jobs,” in the wake of a deadly shooting in a Maryland newsroom of the Capital Gazette that killed five people on June 28.
The president has previously called on news media–once specifically mentioning several news organizations–and called them “the enemy of the people” numerous times this year.
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