Thursday, June 18, 2020

Trump spoke of executing U.S. journalists who didn’t reveal sources for stories

Donald Trump and John Bolton. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: AP)

According to excerpts provided to the Washington Post, Bolton detailed a July 2019 meeting with the president during which Trump complained bitterly about the media coverage he had received. Specifically, Trump railed against journalists who refused to reveal the sources for their stories, Bolton said. “These people should be executed,” Trump said in the meeting, according to Bolton. “They are scumbags.”

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