NYT video & CNN's Ana Navarro interview critical of Trump beating CNN video; Daily Beast article on White House officials supporting Trump
https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/videos/1884378655112981/, dated 4th July 2017 (IST), around 2 mins, covers his background in professional USA wrestling (scripted wrestling not real wrestling like in India and in Olympic events) which it says "honed his win-at-all-costs attitude and taunting insults". It says that he used this approach as candidate Trump and continues to use it as President Trump. The video includes the clip of Trump appearing to beat up a person whose face is replaced by CNN logo, and which clip was tweeted by USA president Trump a few days ago.
Trump's tweet on CNN 'is an incitement to violence,' Ana Navarro says, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNPlmaiU-s4, around 4 mins, 2nd July 2017, ABC News.
I felt it appropriate to transcribe most of CNN commentator (and Republican) Ana Navarro's words in this video. Note that I have also omitted parts where others speak. She says:
I am a CNN commentator. I think that is unacceptable. I think that is the president of the United States taking things way too far. It is an incitement to violence. He is going to get somebody killed in the media. Maybe that will stop him.
...
The president of the United States is inciting violence against the free press. And America, we cannot stand for it.
...
Nobody at CNN is scared. If anything this is making each and every one of us more resolute, not to cower at the bullying of this president. This is a free press. This is a free country. This is a democracy. And if he thinks that with these little tricks he is going to scare Jeff Zucker, he is going to scare anybody at CNN, he has got something different coming. We are resolute (at continuing) searching for the truth, speaking the truth and calling out right versus wrong.
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He [President Trump] can't think it is funny. There are way too many unstable people out in the streets right now at this time of impassioned and heightened passions. We all know it. We have all seen it. We have seen the results of harassment. We have seen the results of shooting. We have seen the results of violence out in the streets and for the president of the United States who is supposed to be unifying his country on a July 4th weekend to be tweeting out incitement to violence - it is incitement to violence. Let us not parse words. Let us not call it by any other name.
...
--- end Ana Navarro transcript ---
This article, Trump Tweets Video of Him Punching CNN—White House Officials Think It’s Really ‘Funny’, http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tweets-video-of-him-punching-cnnwhite-house-officials-think-its-really-funny, dated 2nd July 2017, has some quotes from named and unnamed White House officials on this matter.
It quotes Thomas Bassert, Homeland Security adviser to the president, as saying, "There’s a lot of cable news shows that reach directly into hundreds of thousands of viewers, and they’re really not always fair to the president".."So I’m pretty proud of the president for developing a Twitter and a social media platform where he can talk directly to the American people." .."I think that no one would perceive that [Tweet video of Trump appearing to beat up man with CNN logo replacing his head] as a threat—I hope they don’t" .. "But I do think that he’s [Trump] beaten up in a way on cable platforms that he has a right to respond to."
An unnamed White House official is quoted as saying, "I thought it was funny".."Glad [Dan] Scavino and the president did that." [Scavino is social media director for president Trump].
Another WH official: "The president fights back".."It’s rich that some of you people [in the media] can never take a joke."
Yet another WH official: "Pure Trump".
The article states, "When asked if they [above unnamed WH officials] were concerned that these kinds of messages Trump sends could encourage actual physical violence against journalists, all officials ignored the follow-up questions."
Ravi: I hope and pray that things cool down fast in these attacks between USA president Trump and USA mainstream media. In particular, I hope and pray that no USA mediaperson gets physically attacked by Trump supporters.
Please note that I have a PUBLICLY NEUTRAL informal-student-observer role in these posts that I put up about USA politics. Of course, as I am an Indian citizen living in India, there is no question of me having voted in USA elections.
[I thank ABC News and thedailybeast.com, and have presumed that they will not have any objections to me sharing the above short extracts and transcripts from their website on this post which is freely viewable by all, and does not have any financial profit motive whatsoever. Please note that this post is written in support of freedom of press in the USA and in support of USA mediapersons to do their work without being physically attacked by Trump supporters.]
Trump's tweet on CNN 'is an incitement to violence,' Ana Navarro says, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNPlmaiU-s4, around 4 mins, 2nd July 2017, ABC News.
I felt it appropriate to transcribe most of CNN commentator (and Republican) Ana Navarro's words in this video. Note that I have also omitted parts where others speak. She says:
I am a CNN commentator. I think that is unacceptable. I think that is the president of the United States taking things way too far. It is an incitement to violence. He is going to get somebody killed in the media. Maybe that will stop him.
...
The president of the United States is inciting violence against the free press. And America, we cannot stand for it.
...
Nobody at CNN is scared. If anything this is making each and every one of us more resolute, not to cower at the bullying of this president. This is a free press. This is a free country. This is a democracy. And if he thinks that with these little tricks he is going to scare Jeff Zucker, he is going to scare anybody at CNN, he has got something different coming. We are resolute (at continuing) searching for the truth, speaking the truth and calling out right versus wrong.
...
He [President Trump] can't think it is funny. There are way too many unstable people out in the streets right now at this time of impassioned and heightened passions. We all know it. We have all seen it. We have seen the results of harassment. We have seen the results of shooting. We have seen the results of violence out in the streets and for the president of the United States who is supposed to be unifying his country on a July 4th weekend to be tweeting out incitement to violence - it is incitement to violence. Let us not parse words. Let us not call it by any other name.
...
--- end Ana Navarro transcript ---
This article, Trump Tweets Video of Him Punching CNN—White House Officials Think It’s Really ‘Funny’, http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tweets-video-of-him-punching-cnnwhite-house-officials-think-its-really-funny, dated 2nd July 2017, has some quotes from named and unnamed White House officials on this matter.
It quotes Thomas Bassert, Homeland Security adviser to the president, as saying, "There’s a lot of cable news shows that reach directly into hundreds of thousands of viewers, and they’re really not always fair to the president".."So I’m pretty proud of the president for developing a Twitter and a social media platform where he can talk directly to the American people." .."I think that no one would perceive that [Tweet video of Trump appearing to beat up man with CNN logo replacing his head] as a threat—I hope they don’t" .. "But I do think that he’s [Trump] beaten up in a way on cable platforms that he has a right to respond to."
An unnamed White House official is quoted as saying, "I thought it was funny".."Glad [Dan] Scavino and the president did that." [Scavino is social media director for president Trump].
Another WH official: "The president fights back".."It’s rich that some of you people [in the media] can never take a joke."
Yet another WH official: "Pure Trump".
The article states, "When asked if they [above unnamed WH officials] were concerned that these kinds of messages Trump sends could encourage actual physical violence against journalists, all officials ignored the follow-up questions."
Ravi: I hope and pray that things cool down fast in these attacks between USA president Trump and USA mainstream media. In particular, I hope and pray that no USA mediaperson gets physically attacked by Trump supporters.
Please note that I have a PUBLICLY NEUTRAL informal-student-observer role in these posts that I put up about USA politics. Of course, as I am an Indian citizen living in India, there is no question of me having voted in USA elections.
[I thank ABC News and thedailybeast.com, and have presumed that they will not have any objections to me sharing the above short extracts and transcripts from their website on this post which is freely viewable by all, and does not have any financial profit motive whatsoever. Please note that this post is written in support of freedom of press in the USA and in support of USA mediapersons to do their work without being physically attacked by Trump supporters.]
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