US President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly denounced the press as “the enemy of the American people”, says journalists “should be free from the fear of being violently attacked” as he addressed the deadly shooting at a newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.
Trump said the attack on the Capital Gazette, which left five dead and others injured, “shocked the conscience of our nation and filled our hearts with grief”.
“Journalists, like all Americans, should be free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their job,” Trump said on Friday.
He went on to tell the families of the victims: “There are no words to express our sorrow for your loss. Horrible, horrible event, horrible thing happened and you’re suffering.”
The alleged shooter, who had a history of harassing the paper’s journalists, was ordered held in jail on Friday on five counts of first-degree murder. It was the deadliest attack on journalists…
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