Posted on 10/25/2018 10:51:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told Fox Thursday that President Trump “could not have been more presidential” in his response to the suspicious packages mailed to the Clintons, Obamas, and other prominent Democratic lawmakers who have been critical of the president.
Sanders was responding to a tweet from former CIA director John Brennan telling Trump to “look in the mirror” over the bomb scares and accusing him of “inflammatory rhetoric, insults, lies, & encouragement of physical violence.”
Stop blaming others. Look in the mirror. Your inflammatory rhetoric, insults, lies, & encouragement of physical violence are disgraceful. Clean up your act....try to act Presidential. The American people deserve much better. BTW, your critics will not be intimidated into silence. https://t.co/cS5qNiuU7o— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) October 25, 2018
“Look the president, I think, could not have been more presidential yesterday when he spoke to the American people,” Sanders said.
President Trump called for unity both in his remarks to reporters Wednesday and during his rally in Wisconsin Wednesday.
He called political violence "an attack on our democracy itself," and asked that "all sides to come together in peace and harmony."
"We're all behaving very well. And hopefully we can keep it that way," he told supporters, noting that he wasn’t yelling and was "trying to be nice."
“Let’s not get lost in who is responsible for this heinous act,” Sanders emphasized Thursday. “It is the person who made and sent these suspicious packages. Let’s not forget that this is ultimately the person that is responsible and will be held responsible by this administration.”
During the interview, she also argued that the media has not been “helpful for the American discourse” in general.
“Certainly the media has a role to play in this process,” she argued. “When 90 percent of their coverage of this president is negative despite the historic successes, when the ideas have perpetuated and continued negativity that is not helpful for the American discourse and certainly the president is calling on everyone to come together.”
Sanders also condemned a “disgraceful” statement from CNN’s President Jeff Zucker which partially blamed the White House and their attacks on the media for the attacks.
In a tweet Wednesday, Sanders said the network had chosen to “attack and divide.”
.@realDonaldTrump asked Americans “to come together and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the USA” Yet you chose to attack and divide. America should unite against all political violence. https://t.co/Dlo3xwHyKi— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) October 25, 2018
“If you have a problem with one another let’s voice that but let’s do so peacefully and let’s do that at the ballot box,” she concluded.
A federal investigation is underway into the suspicious packages that have been sent to prominent Democrats and CNN which was addressed to Brennan. The package caused the network to evacuate their New York office Wednesday. According to the latest reports, a suspicious package was also sent to former Vice President Joe Biden.
The democrat media’s call for Trump to tone down his rhetoric is nothing more than an attempt to get President Trump and conservatives to shut up. The violence and hate we have seen since Trump was elected has come from the left in word and deed. This is no tit for tat. Trumps “divisive rhetoric” is nothing more than a person opposing the radical democrat agenda. Democrats believe that if you oppose them you have engaged in hate speech and are advocating violence. And by the way MSM and democrats, “Lock her up” is a rallying cry for justice, “CNN sucks” is an opinion and calling the media “ the enemy of the people” is an accurate description. The main stream media hides the truth. They peddle innuendo, outright lies and hate toward this President and his supporters. “A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the MSM that I refer to as Fake News. It’s gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description…” President Trump.
I wish she would call it what it is, a Rat pre election stunt.
Tgeyre just trying to get whatever they can out of what is likely some operation Wyle E Coyote
And lest any of us forget, the Scarboroughs, Acostas, etc. out there are all paid by their respective networks. If you think they’re not doing exactly what their bosses want them to do, you’re deluded. (Not you, Kaslin)
I have never seen such projection before in my life. They accuse of us everything they do to the nth degree. They are taking Stalinist methods to new levels, and we are watching the left use Newspeak and Doublethink right in front of our eyes. Numerous of their politicians have called for harassing opponents and their “press” has devoted themselves non-stop to slandering and dehumanizing conservatives and our president (i.e. instigating resentment and hatred that has resulted in over 600 attacks and threats against Trump supporters since his election, not to mention the attempted murder of several GOP Congressmen).
Of course, I think it’s probably to our electoral benefit that the Dems are running on nothing by fearmongering about Trump and Republicans (worse than usual) and stirring up hatred, division, and intolerance of different opinions. They would be nowhere without the emotion-based hysteria they’ve ginned up; they have no vision for the country (except that its wealth needs to be redistributed to the rest of the world). They have nothing else.
Ask them what would have been more Presidential?
Something like:
Hey, all you MAGA Republicans, go commit suicide!
“Stop blaming others. Look in the mirror. Your inflammatory rhetoric, insults, lies, & encouragement of physical violence are disgraceful. Clean up your act....try to act Presidential. The American people deserve much better. BTW, your critics will not be intimidated into silence. https://t.co/cS5qNiuU7o—; John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) October 25, 2018”
Projection, projection. Without our projection, we’d be as shaky as...as a bomb-maker with shaky hands.
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