Trump Camp Ejects NYT Reporter Who Wrote Critical Article From Iowa Event

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Pensacola Bay Center in Pensacola, Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Snyder)
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign on Friday ejected a New York Times reporter, who’d written a story critical of Trump’s Iowa field organization, from an event in Waukee, Iowa.

In a post for the Times, reporter Trip Gabriel said that he was kicked out of a Pizza Ranch restaurant by a police officer and campaign staffers.

Gabriel was told by an officer, “It’s a private event, you have to go,” even though about 20 other reporters were present at the event.

Gabriel’s initial story concerned the Trump camp’s floundering ground game in the Hawkeye State, including volunteers who had not knocked on any doors and a precinct captain who maintained a 9/11 conspiracy theory website.

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  1. Thin skinned?

    It’s so thin it’s transparent.

  2. And calling him a complete douche would be an insult to douches.

  3. Yeah, chicken skin is thicker, actually.

  4. Must not have been black or brown. Or they would have taken his coat first.

    Brownshirts

  5. Trump: “police are the most mistreated people in this country” and now they’re working for me.

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