The Secret Service protected MSNBC reporter Katy Tur after Donald Trump launched a personal attack at a December rally.
The candidate had previously blasted her as “dishonest” for her coverage of protests at an earlier rally and demanded an apology, which Tur refused to give.
“What a lie. Katy Tur. What a lie it was,” Trump said, pointing at Tur from the stage. “Third. Rate. Reporter. Remember that.”
In an essay for Marie Claire, Tur wrote that the crowd turned on her “like a large animal, angry and unchained.” Afterwards, the Secret Service took what she described as the “extraordinary” precaution of walking Tur to her car.
It was unlikely, Tur said, that any future attack by the candidate could be “as scary.”
Trump has a history of lashing out at what he calls the “very, very dishonest” media, and a slew of reporters and publications have been denied access to Trump’s campaign events, including The New York Times, BuzzFeed News, Telemundo, Politico and The Des Moines Register.
Trump should just put the press in a chain-link cage, and let the people at his rallies throw their empty beer bottles at them.
(NB. Not really, of course. I just mean, if Trump is going to vilify the media for the crowd’s entertainment, and to deflect criticism of himself, why not go all the way.)
Drumpf is a fascist pig.
And props to Tur. She has shown courage.
In an essay for Marie Claire, Tur wrote that the crowd turned on her “like a large animal, angry and unchained.”
That’s not a crowd. It’s a mob.
According to a top Trump Spox, “That’s planned for after he wins the election.”
And yet, MSNBC continues to slaver over, and broadcast almost evrything the lying rascal says. This is not a game. The man pretty much incited violence against an employee. Where’s the backbone?
Edit. At a December rally? Why is this coming out now?