The Guardian: “Donald Trump’s war with the US press began as an act in the absence of effective Democratic opposition then spiraled out of control, according to an eagerly awaited new book by one of the chief targets of the president’s fury.”
“In The Enemy of the People, CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta writes that after an early confrontation, close Trump aide Hope Hicks called him to say the president wanted him to know he was ‘very professional today.'”
“Trump, Acosta writes, had just called the reporter ‘fake news’ and ‘very fake news’ after being asked about Russian election interference at a press conference in February 2017.”
Said Acosta: “When he called us ‘fake news’, it was, in his mind, an act.”
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