Tapper: I’m Not Sure How Trump’s ‘Nasty Personal Tweets’ Serve Soldiers, Kids, or Workers

‘The numbers just don’t lie’

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HUCKABEE SANDERS: "I think the American people elected someone who is tough, who is smart and who is a fighter. That’s Donald Trump. And I don’t think it’s a surprise to anybody that he fights fire with fire."
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TAPPER: "American people elected someone to fight, yes. But to fight for them. These nasty personal tweets against individual cable news anchors or those more broadly seeking to undermine any critical journalism, I’m not sure how that serves the soldier in harm’s way, or the hungry child in the inner city or Appalachia, or the unemployed factory worker in a decimated factory town. 85 tweets attacking the media, 67 about jobs, 27 about troops and veterans — really? The numbers just don’t lie."

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