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sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 08:55 AM Dec 2015

Trump promises not to kill journalists.

So he's got that going for him.

Donald Trump, a man whose ire for the media has been matched only by his ire for minorities, extended a warm and loving olive branch to journalists this week: the promise that he will not, in fact, have them slaughtered.

While addressing Russian president Vladimir Putin’s endorsement of him as a candidate for president at a rally in Michigan on Monday, Trump was asked whether he approved of Putin’s governing strategy, which allegedly involves silencing journalists with death. Trump, ever the gentle breeze, said that he “would never” kill a journalist—a sign that perhaps Trump is not the great and terrible tyrant we had all feared he’d be.

“I would never kill them, I would never do that... but I do hate them, and some of them are such lying, disgusting people.”
Trump also doubted that Putin had actually ordered journalists killed, despite copious evidence to the contrary.

http://gawker.com/donald-trump-has-gone-soft-refuses-to-murder-journalis-1749201104

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