Newt Gingrich: the media has earned the label "enemy of the people"

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The media deserve the "enemy" label attributed to them by President Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich said Thursday, one day after sending explosive devices to the biggest Democrats and CNN.

"They deserved it."

Speaking at an Axios event in Washington, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives said the president's attacks on the media, regarded as "the enemy of the people", do not improve the division of American politics. But, he said, etiquette had its reason to be.

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CNN, which belongs to the group, is an example of the "tribalisation" of cable news, and he said there was "no more anti-American network than CNN International."

Trump used the people's term enemy to describe the mainstream media and on Thursday morning he said on Twitter that "a very big part of the anger we see today in our society is caused by the deliberately false and inaccurate reports "of the general public He calls" false news ". On Wednesday afternoon, following reports that bombs were allegedly sent to former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and CNN offices in New York, Trump called for a "bombing." unit. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and minority House leader Nancy Pelosi said the president's words "sound hollow until he returns to his statements." who condone acts of violence ". Last week, Trump congratulated a Montana congressman who assaulted a journalist last year.

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On the same day, law enforcement officials told Gingrich that a suspicious package addressed to former vice president Joe Biden had been intercepted at a Delaware mail processing center. and that a package containing an explosive similar to those sent to Democrats and CNN had been found addressed to actor Robert De Niro. .