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A Trump Supporter Tried To Terrorize The Press With A Swastika And Got The Swastika Wrong
The point of attempting to intimidate the press with Nazi imagery is chilling, but also confusing. Was the person who drew this calling the press Nazis, or warning that Nazis are coming for the media? For a campaign that gets outraged when the word Nazi is used to describe the candidate and his supporters, it is self-incriminating for swastikas to be showing up at Trump rallies.
The press always got booed at Trump rallies. But now the aggression is menacing.
Reporters are now concealing or removing their press credentials when leaving the pen to avoid confrontations with Trump’s supporters. The atmosphere is particularly threatening to female reporters and to female TV reporters whose faces are well known, reporters say. (“The camera draws the hate,” as one put it.) Some reporters have wondered aloud about the need for more security, or at least more barriers to separate them from the crowd as they enter and exit Trump’s events.
In addition to confining reporters to pens at his rallies, he has banned as many as a dozen news organization at various times in the past 15 months.
Trump’s Dangerous Game of ‘Beat the Press’
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What if someone gets hurt?
The point of attempting to intimidate the press with Nazi imagery is chilling, but also confusing. Was the person who drew this calling the press Nazis, or warning that Nazis are coming for the media? For a campaign that gets outraged when the word Nazi is used to describe the candidate and his supporters, it is self-incriminating for swastikas to be showing up at Trump rallies.
The press always got booed at Trump rallies. But now the aggression is menacing.
Reporters are now concealing or removing their press credentials when leaving the pen to avoid confrontations with Trump’s supporters. The atmosphere is particularly threatening to female reporters and to female TV reporters whose faces are well known, reporters say. (“The camera draws the hate,” as one put it.) Some reporters have wondered aloud about the need for more security, or at least more barriers to separate them from the crowd as they enter and exit Trump’s events.
In addition to confining reporters to pens at his rallies, he has banned as many as a dozen news organization at various times in the past 15 months.
Trump’s Dangerous Game of ‘Beat the Press’
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What if someone gets hurt?