Trump Jokes to Putin They Should ‘Get Rid’ of Journalists
HOW, EXACTLY?
U.S. president says he’s envious Russia doesn’t have a “fake news” problem, on first anniversary of Annapolis Capital-Gazette newsroom shooting that killed five.
Donald Trump joked with Russian President Vladimir Putin that they should “get rid” of journalists as they met in public at the G-20 conference of world leaders in Osaka, Japan. Indicating toward the journalists in the room, Trump said, “Get rid of them. Fake news is a great term, isn’t it? You don’t have this problem in Russia but we do.” Putin responded, in English: “We also have. It’s the same.” It has been reported that 21 journalists have been killed in Russia since Putin came to power in March 2000. Trump’s remarks come a year to the day that a gunman killed five people at the Annapolis Capital-Gazette in Maryland.
