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Donald Trump orders NBC’s Katy Tur to ‘be quiet’

, July 27 at 2:15 PM, https://www.washingtonpost.com...aty-tur-to-be-quiet/

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fposttv-thumbnails-prod%2Fthumbnails%2F5798fd24e4b088c815e1a979%2F2016-07-27T181738Z_1_OV4SGS5WF_RTRMADC_0_USA-ELECTION-TRUMP-BE-QUIET-ROUGH-CUT.jpg&w=650Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tells a female reporter to "be quiet" during a news conference after she asks him to explain why he would urge Russia to hack into Hillary Clinton's emails. (Reuters)

To understand the dynamic between Donald Trump and the media, you really just need to watch one minute of one news conference on Wednesday.

Speaking to reporters in South Florida, the Republican presidential nominee encouraged Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's email account and produce deleted messages. This, of course, comes after he denied that Russia hacked Democratic National Committee emails on his behalf.

"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Trump said.

NBC News reporter Katy Tur surely spoke for many journalists when she followed up that surprising statement with a question: "Do you have any qualms about asking a foreign government — Russia, China, anybody — to interfere, to hack into the system of anybody's in this country?"

"That's up to the president," Trump replied.

Um, yeah. And you want to be the president, Donald Trump. The question was whether it is responsible for you — a person who wants to be president — to promote Russian hacking.

Trump didn't want to talk about that; he wanted to talk instead about how Vladimir Putin "has no respect" for the current president. Tur tried to steer him back to her original inquiry and asked again, "Does that not give you pause?"

"No, it gives me no pause," Trump said. "If they have them, they have them. We might as well — hey, you know what gives me more pause? That a person in our government, crooked Hillary Clinton — here's what gives me pause. Be quiet. I know you want to save her. That a person in our government, Katy, would delete or get rid of 33,000 emails. That gives me a big problem."

Tur later quoted an old tweet in which Trump encouraged hackers to target President Obama.

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Yuji ...

Trump will be looking and talking near the White House in another of his "Trump Tower" while Hillary Clinton will be President of the US_of_A, after winning in November 2016 and sworn-in on January 2017.

FM
Demerara_Guy posted:

Yuji ...

Trump will be looking and talking near the White House in another of his "Trump Tower" while Hillary Clinton will be President of the US_of_A, after winning in November 2016 and sworn-in on January 2017.

DG

I am really enjoying this campaign. We will see.

It is great to see that we are all having fun.

FM
yuji22 posted:

When they talk rubbish, Trump must put them in their place.

You are a moron. The fourth estate is sanctified in american politics and are the external checks to the system. Without them the nation can easily descend into chaos. 

The convention for treating them with respect is sanctified turf. His disrespect here is not unexpected. It is what fascists do. You would not know this since you are a dimwit.

Katie Tur sought to highlight a contradiction so instead of answering he shush her up like the bully he is . He must never be the president.

FM
yuji22 posted:
Demerara_Guy posted:

Yuji ...

Trump will be looking and talking near the White House in another of his "Trump Tower" while Hillary Clinton will be President of the US_of_A, after winning in November 2016 and sworn-in on January 2017.

DG

I am really enjoying this campaign. We will see.

It is great to see that we are all having fun.

You are indeed a nit. There is no joy in watching religious means testing becoming the norm. It is not joy watching a candidate breaks all the norms of professionalism and respect for process.

One does not live by bread alone. One needs rules. He is thankfully, will be dutifully returned to his schemes and conspiracy theory making after november 8th.

This is the classic fight between darkness and light, between chaos and order between civility and bullyism. Since this is the most powerful nation on the planet it is actually a struggle for civilization between the tasteless hordes and thinking people.

There is no joy here except for outlandish morons like you. We are actually broaching a collapse of planetary civilization.

FM

America has spied and meddled in the affairs of other countries for over a century . Every nation is smart today through individuals. Why would it be surprising that these nations can hack their system. 

TRUMP DOAN NEED TO ENCOURAGE DEM. Atleast, he is aware of the posibilities.

S
Stormborn posted:
yuji22 posted:

When they talk rubbish, Trump must put them in their place.

You are a moron. The fourth estate is sanctified in american politics and are the external checks to the system. Without them the nation can easily descend into chaos. 

The convention for treating them with respect is sanctified turf. His disrespect here is not unexpected. It is what fascists do. You would not know this since you are a dimwit.

Katie Tur sought to highlight a contradiction so instead of answering he shush her up like the bully he is . He must never be the president.

Well said D2.

Chief

Donald Trump can indeed do these things at his controlled meetings.

It will be of interest to see how he performs in the scheduled official presidential debates which will be moderated by independent individuals.

FM

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