CNN Prez Calls Out Trump’s ‘Continued Attacks On The Media’ After Bomb Scare

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Responding to the bomb mailed to CNN’s offices in New York City, CNN President Jeff Zucker on Wednesday criticized President Donald Trump and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders for the “total and complete lack of understanding at the White House about the seriousness of their continued attacks on the media.”

Trump and “especially” Sanders, Zucker wrote, “should understand their words matter. Thus far, they have shown no comprehension of that.”

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  1. Will the MSM,ABC,CBS,NBC and newspapers step up or are they afraid of Trump and friends?
    Every news cast should open with Trump is attacking the First Amendment because he is a weak kneed sissy and can not stand anyone who exposes him for what he is.

  2. Trump’s truthless and vicious attacks on the media, CNN, and Democrats are leading to right wing terrorism. Our country needs to be protected — from its own “president”.

  3. Trump continues his attacks on the media because he’s a fascist. It doesn’t take a Pulitzer Prize winning, investigative reporter to verify that fact. His references to the media that doesn’t pander to him as “enemies of the state” should be a dead giveaway.

    The problem is that the so-called “liberal media” act as mere stenographers, unwilling to risk access to powerful politicians by writing the truth.

    Zucker’s statement is true but quite late in it’s issuance.

  4. The fact that Trump has not been indicted for Incitement to Riot shows the paucity of judicial power and its corruption, useless now in the face of growing domestic insurgencies. Trump should have been indicted on felony incitement a long time ago. The country has gone to hell and can never find its way back now, too late, and the corruption is endemic and systematic, unresolvable except with revolution. Why hasn’t Trump been indicted, for this and other egregious crimes? Oh yeah, no responsible judiciary … almost forgot.

  5. Bit sweeping. I could show you dozens of examples of reporters pushing back hard. You want to prove a negative? Or maybe dial that back a bit?

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