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Trump: My Attacks on the Media Are a ‘Great Service’ to Nation

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The president ratchets up his “enemy of the people” claims by saying the media may “cause war.”

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President Trump launched into the latest full-blown assault on the media Sunday morning, declaring that he is doing a “great service” to the nation by labeling the press the “enemy of the people.” Apparently in response to widespread criticism of his rhetoric on the media, which experts have warned could lead to violence, the president said the “fake news” media “purposely cause great division & distrust.”  “They can also cause war. They are very dangerous & sick!” he wrote. His latest attack on the press comes just days after his own daughter, Ivanka Trump, laughed off the notion of the media as the “enemy of the people” and said she did not view it that way.