More trump hypocrisy:
President Donald Trump accused the media Friday of making up sources in stories critical of his administration, and said the practice of granting anonymity, used by virtually all reputable news organizations, should end.
“I’m against the people that make up stories and make up sources,” Trump told a cheering crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “They shouldn’t be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody’s name. Let their name be put out there.”
Trump’s remarks, coming a week after he declared the media the “enemy of the American people,” are a continuation of the White House’s efforts to delegitimize the press. The remarks are also hypocritical, given Trump’s own tendency to attribute wild claims to unnamed sources.
During the presidential campaign, Trump claimed on Fox News to have “very credible” sources backing up bogus crime statistics he’d tweeted out to millions of followers. He once said on MSNBC that “five different sources” supported his claim that the Mexican government was sending “rapists” to the U.S. He said on ABC News that a “very good source” told him then-President Barack Obama wanted to accept 200,000 Syrian refugees.
And before he entered the 2016 presidential race, Trump cited anonymous sources to fuel the bogus claim that Obama wasn’t born in the United States, and to attack New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as his office sued Trump University for fraud.:
President Donald Trump accused the media Friday of making up sources in stories critical of his administration, and said the practice of granting anonymity, used by virtually all reputable news organizations, should end.
“I’m against the people that make up stories and make up sources,” Trump told a cheering crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “They shouldn’t be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody’s name. Let their name be put out there.”
Trump’s remarks, coming a week after he declared the media the “enemy of the American people,” are a continuation of the White House’s efforts to delegitimize the press. The remarks are also hypocritical, given Trump’s own tendency to attribute wild claims to unnamed sources.
During the presidential campaign, Trump claimed on Fox News to have “very credible” sources backing up bogus crime statistics he’d tweeted out to millions of followers. He once said on MSNBC that “five different sources” supported his claim that the Mexican government was sending “rapists” to the U.S. He said on ABC News that a “very good source” told him then-President Barack Obama wanted to accept 200,000 Syrian refugees.
And before he entered the 2016 presidential race, Trump cited anonymous sources to fuel the bogus claim that Obama wasn’t born in the United States, and to attack New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman as his office sued Trump University for fraud.:
