During a speech before CPAC this morning, President Trump called out the media, and specifically named CNN.
Or, as he said, the “Clinton News Network.”
Watch:
Trump: “The Clinton News Network” #CPAC pic.twitter.com/FR5Um7qPnp
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) February 24, 2017
During his critique, the president defended the First Amendment.
Trump slams the press at #CPAC: “They say that we can’t criticize their dishonest coverage because of the First Amendment.” pic.twitter.com/NFhcrq47g9
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) February 24, 2017
Trump said the mainstream media gets “upset when we expose their false stories. They say that we can’t criticize their dishonest coverage because of the First Amendment.”
He continued, “I love the First Amendment…nobody loves it better than me.”
To cheers, Trump said, “I mean, who uses it more than I do?
“But the First Amendment, it gives it to me, it gives it to you, it gives it to all Americans the right to speak our minds freely.
“It gives you the right, and me the right, to criticize fake news and criticize it strongly,” the president said.
Trump accused the media corporations of having their own agenda at the expense of the country’s.
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