Dickerson: Someone May See Trump’s ‘Enemy’ Tweet and Violently Attack the Media

‘what would you say to anybody who might take license with the idea when the president says the press is the enemy and act on that ‘

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DICKERSON: “Well, we are talking about the declaring that the press is the enemy and I just wanted to ask you this. In the past when the president, when he was a candidate and he targeted people, say, protesters at a rally, some people found that an opportunity to take license and target those people. As a spokesman for White House here with us today, what would you say to anybody who might take license with the idea when the president says the press is the enemy and act on that declaration by the president?”
PRIEBUS: “Well, I don’t know what you mean by act on. I mean certainly we would never condone violence but I do think we condone critical thought, and I think if Americans put critical thought which I think they will into what they are reading in these newspapers and actually what is being accomplished by the Trump Administration, they would realize that the press in many cases a not been doing their job in reporting the truth."

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