Monday, February 20, 2017

Morning Joe blasts Trump’s attacks on media as the ‘enemy’: ‘That does incite people to violence

Even Morning Joe has had enough of Trump's hateful rhetoric that promotes violence! Who would have thought it possible?!

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/morning-joe-blasts-trumps-attacks-on-media-as-the-enemy-that-does-incite-people-to-violence/

From the site:

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough worries that President Donald Trump’s attack on the media as “an enemy of the American people” could incite violence against individual journalists.

The “Morning Joe” host agreed with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) that Trump’s tweet Friday blasting the media sounded like something a dictator would say, and he said the president had crossed the line with his attack.

“It’s one thing to say the press is liberal, it’s one thing to say the 9th Circuit (Court) is liberal, but when you start saying that somebody is an enemy of the people, then that does incite people to violence — especially if it’s coming from the president of the United States,” Scarborough said.

He said many journalists retweet the death threats they received daily for perceived negative reporting on the Trump administration, so he believes Trump’s words could inspire an unbalanced supporter to take action.

“When you receive tweets every day, and somebody’s threatening your life and they talk about lynching you and your family after President Trump has his way with the media, this happens over and over again, and I don’t think there’s anybody who’s in the media that doesn’t hear that every day,” Scarborough said. “So yeah, this is very, very dangerous.”

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