'I was attacked at a restaurant, mocked for my looks, need Secret Service protection and it's the media's fault': Sarah Sanders REFUSES to say the press is not the 'enemy of the people' in angry clash with CNN's Jim Acosta
Donald Trump started referring to the press as an 'enemy of the American people' just weeks into his presidency
Thursday morning his daughter Ivanka said publicly that she disagrees
Pressed to follow suit hours later, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders dodged the question
Instead she blamed reporters for inciting threats against her and necessitating Secret Service coverage, a first for a presidential spokesperson
Reporters in the room were stunned and pointed to June 28 murders of Maryland newspaper employees as proof that it's journalists who are genuinely threatened
President later tweeted that Ivanka was right: a mere 'large percentage' of the media are enemies of the American public
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders visbly upset some journalists during a briefing on Thursday when she complained about physical dangers she has faced in her job and her unprecedented need for Secret Service protection, and blamed the reporters in the room for causing it.
Challenging her directly, one reporter responded: 'Tell that to the five dead journalists in Maryland.'
On June 28 a gunman stormed the newsroom at the Annapolis Capital newspaper and shot dead John McNamara, Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, Wendi Winters and Rebecca Smith.
Another journalist at the White House Thursday griped afterward: 'She’s going to get us killed!'
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