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🙄 Shameful #Trifecta4Trump: In 44 days, @realdonaldtrump has met with leaders of the 3 worst jailers of journalists: #Egypt, #China & #Turkey.
Donald Trump is set to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the White House on Tuesday. Erdoğan’s Turkey was the world’s worst jailer of reporters in 2016– and Trump has already met with the heads of the 2nd- and 3rd-worst jailers of journalists, China’s Xi Jinping and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. When he meets Erdoğan, Trump will complete a troubling trifecta.
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Why Trump’s insults of journalists must be taken seriously
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called the mainstream media “crooked” “unfair” “troublemakers” and The New York Times a failing, “SAD!” newspaper “full of boring lies.” Individual reporters are “liars” and “bimbos,” according to his tweets.
Recently, reporter Julia Ioffe found herself at odds with the Trump campaign after she wrote a profile of the candidate’s wife, Melania Trump. Within 24 hours, she picked up her phone to a recording of a Hitler speech, part of a wave of anti-Semitic messages targeted at the journalist, whose family fled to America to escape anti-Semitism in Russia 26 years ago. Other female journalists at odds with the campaign have found themselves in the crosshairs; Trump’s insults against Megyn Kelly and Michelle Fields galvanized online trolls to send thousands of hateful and misogynistic messages, according to reports and analysis by digital news outlet Vocativ.
Image: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to journalists in Nashville, Tennessee, in August 2015. (Reuters/Harrison McClary)
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called the mainstream media “crooked” “unfair” “troublemakers” and The New York Times a failing, “SAD!” newspaper “full of boring lies.” Individual reporters are “liars” and “bimbos,” according to his tweets.
Recently, reporter Julia Ioffe found herself at odds with the Trump campaign after she wrote a profile of the candidate’s wife, Melania Trump. Within 24 hours, she picked up her phone to a recording of a Hitler speech, part of a wave of anti-Semitic messages targeted at the journalist, whose family fled to America to escape anti-Semitism in Russia 26 years ago. Other female journalists at odds with the campaign have found themselves in the crosshairs; Trump’s insults against Megyn Kelly and Michelle Fields galvanized online trolls to send thousands of hateful and misogynistic messages, according to reports and analysis by digital news outlet Vocativ.
Image: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to journalists in Nashville, Tennessee, in August 2015. (Reuters/Harrison McClary)
Conservative women journalists call for Trump to fire Corey Lewandowski
Conservative female journalists are uniting to demand that Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump fire campaign manager Corey Lewandowski after Lewandowski allegedly assaulted former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields during a rally. He has since been charged with misdemeanor battery. Some pretty big names have signed the letter.