At a rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday, Donald Trump said he would be OK with someone trying to assassinate him by firing through a group of journalists. “To get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. And I don’t mind that so much,” Trump said, when discussing the bulletproof glass protecting him.
The Trump campaign tried to clean up the Republican candidate’s comments…by suggesting people should not believe what they heard, and repeating baseless claims that Democratic rhetoric was to blame for the assassination attempts against him. Steven Cheung, communications director for the Trump campaign, claimed in a statement that the ex-president “was stating that the Media was in danger, in that they were protecting him and, therefore, were in great danger themselves, and should have had a glass protective shield, also. There can be no other interpretation of what was said. He was actually looking out for their welfare, far more than his own!”
If you have to offer multiple paragraphs of explanation for barely a sentence or two of his statements, you’ve already lost people’s attention, to say nothing of blatantly engaging in an Argument from Silence.
So, what? Just report on it with no further commentary than “Yeesh.”?
Not the reporting, the Trump campaign trying to justify a few sentences with paragraphs.
Ah, fair.