Tur to Trump Officials: If You Care About Safety of Journalists, ‘Please Say Something to Your Boss, Before It Is Too Late’

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TUR: "Good. I’m glad someone in the Administration said this out loud with a camera recording. Hope she implores him to tone it down. Either he doesn't get the problem or he does not care. Sadly, the harassment and threats are not stopping. Journalists get them every day. We have been getting them since the campaign when then-candidate Trump urged the crowd to yell and scream at us. But what you saw and still see on TV, those boos and taunts are only part of it. What you do not see are the nasty letters or packages or emails, the threats of physical violence. 'I hope you get raped and killed', one person wrote to me just this week. 'Raped and killed'. Not just me, but a couple of my female colleagues, as well. In case you want to argue this has nothing to do with the President, the most recent note I got ended with MAGA. So if anyone in the Administration cares about the safety and security of journalists, the health of a free and unintimidated press and, by extension, our democracy as a whole, please say something to your boss, to your dad, to your Commander in Chief before it is too late. Obviously, I am not talking to you, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. You made it clear where you stand yesterday."