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Journalists regularly have insults hurled at them during Trump rallies. As Jared Sexton, who heard people at a Trump rally in Charlotte “talking beating the shit out of reporters,” tweeted in August, “If you thought Trump couldn’t be more terrifying, welcome to The Age of Breitbart.”
In February, we are told by The Daily Beast, “Conservative essayist Bethany S. Mandel, who has been awash in a deluge of social media abuse since she began denouncing Donald Trump, finally purchased a handgun over the weekend.” She has been told things by Trump followers that “you deserve the oven,” and “Missed one, you slimy Jewess.”
When Jewish journalist Julia Ioffe wrote in GQ about Donald and Melania Trump this spring, her inbox and phone were flooded with anti-Semitic hate and death threats. “They said I’d make a good lampshade,” she said.
CNN’s Sara Murray told Cosmopolitan “Before Donald Trump, it was rare for a presidential candidate to be attacking individual reporters.” She described his attack on her:
“He was unhappy with some story I had done and he did a little impression of me on stage, and started talking about this terrible CNN reporter. Then he called me out by name. The next thing I knew, I had thousands of Trump fans turning around [and] jeering at me.”
Unlike Katy Tur, she didn’t feel physically unsafe and she did not need to be rescued by the Secret Service, but she issued what is possibly the most damning statement of all about Trump’s hostility to those who question him:
“I think any reporter who has asked Trump a tough question has gotten the Trump treatment.”
“I think any reporter who has asked Trump a tough question has gotten the Trump treatment.”
Katy Tur told Morning Joe that Trump realizes he needs the media, but he has a strange way of showing it. It hardly matters how gracious he can be on an individual basis when he is inciting crowds against you, and those Trump rallies are beacons to white supremacists and anti-Semites.
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