Trump: Corrupt US media truly is 'enemy of the people'
US President Donald Trump has launched a new attack on “fake” and “corrupt” mainstream American news organizations, calling them “enemy of the people” and the "real opposition party".
Trump made the remarks on Tuesday a day after the Justice Department announced Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month investigation found no evidence of collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia in the 2016 election.
Trump accused journalists of covering the so-called Russia probe unfairly.
"The Mainstream Media is under fire and being scorned all over the World as being corrupt and FAKE. For two years they pushed the Russian Collusion Delusion when they always knew there was No Collusion," Trump tweeted.
"They truly are the Enemy of the People and the Real Opposition Party!" he added, again using "enemy of the people" phrase -- echoing a Stalinist phrase used to describe political enemies.
Trump has claimed “complete and total exoneration” after the Justice Department announced Mueller’s investigation found no evidence of collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia in the 2016 election.
Mueller, a former FBI director, had been examining since May 2017 whether Trump’s election campaign colluded with Moscow to try to influence the 2016 presidential election and whether the Republican president later unlawfully tried to obstruct his investigation.
Attorney General William Barr, a Trump appointee, said in a four-page summary of the report released on Sunday that Mueller’s team had concluded that no one in Trump’s campaign “conspired or coordinated with the Russian government.”
However, Mueller’s findings left unresolved the issue of whether Trump obstructed justice by undermining the investigations.
Trump has seized on the summary of the Muller report clearing him of collusion as a complete vindication of his many claims to have been subjected to a "witch hunt" -- and that the media was part of it.
US 'bolstered' armed groups to oust Assad in Syria: Report
Washington was ‘aware’ of Israel’s nuclear weapons production since 1960s: Declassified doc.
Blinken visits Turkey as tensions escalate over proxies in Syria
‘Abhorrent’: Oxfam says only 12 trucks delivered aid in North Gaza since Oct.
VIDEO | Leader receives religious eulogists on Hazrat Fatima birth anniv.
Pope Francis slams Israel’s ‘machine-gunning’ of Gaza children
US hostage-taking of Iranian nationals violation of intl. law: Deputy FM
VIDEO | Carol Singers for Palestine on London’s Parliament Square
Ansarullah says ‘Israeli terrorists’ incapable of confronting Yemen, warns of secret weapons
VIDEO | Yemenis praise the military for its successful operations against Israel
VIDEO | Israel continues to bomb Gaza homes
PressTV NEWSLETTER
now
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
