Trump praises the violence of his colleague against the Guardian journalist: "Good guy"

Trump was yesterday in the US state of Montana to support his colleague Matt Rosendale. In the end, it was Trumps statements about Congressman Greg Gianforte that stole the show.

Gianforte was in broad daylight last year, when an audio recording revealed how he had hit journalist Ben Jacobs of The Guardian newspaper.

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In his speech, the president recounted how Gianforte hit the ground reporter. "Someone who does that, that's my kind of man," he says, imitating the gesture that Gianforte would have made.

"Greg is smart and never wrestles with him again … the president laughed." Greg is a tough guy, a good guy. "

Bad timing

Trump's statements come at a critical moment.

The White House is under national and international pressure while the latter refuses to condemn Saudi Arabia., despite evidence increasingly evident that the ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, ordered the imprisonment of the critical journalist Jamal Khashoggi

The expected excuses

In a statement, the editor of the Guardian, John Mulholland, said: "The President of the United States has accused tonight the aggression of an American journalist working for the Guardian, to applaud this attack. who just did his job is an attack on our freedom of expression by someone who has sworn to justify this freedom. "

" After the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, there must be other attacks against journalists. Here and around the world, where journalists are often at greater risk, we hope that honest people will condemn these statements and that the president will apologize for that. "

In ruins

The incident occurred on May 24, 2017. A team of Fox News reporters witnessed the attack of Jacobs .According to them, Gianforte seized the reporter both hands to the throat when he asked him critical questions. "Then he threw Jacobs on the floor and we looked incredulously when Gianforte began to hit the reporter," eyewitnesses said. Guardian.

Jacobs was taken to hospital with an ambulance and treated for an elbow injury.His glasses were broken. "He threw me down," said Jacobs earlier. It's the strangest thing that happened to me during political reporting. "