Obama Speechwriter: Trump’s Press Attacks ‘Totally Unprecedented,’ Should Be Held Accountable

‘I think President Trump set the bar very conveniently low for himself’

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LITT: "Well, thank you for having me on this morning. And I think President Trump set the bar very conveniently low for himself. I mean, we know that at the Al Smith dinner the only time he has tried something like this he got booed by the audience and that is difficult to do in a room like that. So I think by that very, very low bar, he cleared it. So I guess in that sense, it was a success. I think the stranger thing about all this is the contacts that comes in. This is not a normal night of president telling jokes and the press laughing at them and vice versa. This is a president who has issued an attack on the free press that is totally unprecedented and treat it like a normal dinner what are the best lines and what is funny and not funny seems like it’s missing the point."

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