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Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin said Friday that President Trump is “fomenting violence” against the press.

In a panel appearance on HBO's “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Rubin, a conservative columnist who has been a vocal critic of Trump, suggested that the president's frequent verbal attacks on the media helped lead to the deadly shooting at a Maryland newsroom this week.

“The person who is fomenting violence the most is the president of the United States,” Rubin said. “He turns the crowd on journalists, a hooting, hollering, screaming mass of people. He individually picks out journalists for them to direct their ire.”

“He calls us the enemy of the people, he says that we are unpatriotic, that we do not love our country, and we’re surprised when someone picks up a gun to k**l us?” she continued.

Rubin, who has frequently criticized Trump in her “Right Turn” blog for the Post, is not the first journalist to call out Trump’s attacks on the media following the shooting this week at The Capital Gazette.

After Trump condemned the shooting and claimed he has “a lot of respect” for reporters, CNN aired a montage of Trump criticizing the media as “horrible people,” “dishonest” and “f**e news” during his speeches and rallies.

Trump referred to the press as “the enemy of the people” at a rally earlier this week.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Dimwit, the person who k**led these journalists had problem with this newspaper for a long time..Even before President Trump became the President...He lost defamation lawsuit against the paper i believe in 2013 when Barack Hussein Obama was President...Get your facts straight before starting your BS!!!

Kevyn

And he did not act until the Orange buffoon gave him encouragement.

vernon

Ya'll call trump a bully and cry when he takes on an attacker.You people got so used to bush
hiding under the bed I guess you think that's the way it is supposed to be.Bush almost k**led the republican party with his noconfrontational b s.these reporters have lied about trump and he gives it back in spades.There is not a reporter that hasn't Taken a cheap shot at Trump and trump isn't going to take it.
The Press is the enemy of the people they are working together to o*******w the legally elected president.

rumitoid

Pretty clear!

rumitoid

And he did not act for 5 years--five years!--until Trump called journalists "enemies of the people." Coincidence?

kemmer

Face it. When Trump said the free press is the enemy of the people, he opened season on journalists.
Fawning over China's Xi becoming chairman for life, Trump said, "Maybe WE ought to give that a shot"! What sort of crazed American president says stuff like that?

rumitoid

Amen, brother!