Last night Donald Trump whipped his crowd into an anti-media frenzy in Tampa, Florida. Spewing angry rhetoric, he instructed the crowd to turn to the media, who were gathered in a press pen in the back of the crowd and said:
“The crookedest people in the world. They are the media. They are trying to steal the election for crooked Hillary. Let them turn their cameras to see the crowd. Let them turn the cameras. They never do.”
The increasingly unhinged Republican nominee claims there is an enormous conspiracy to control the media, rig the polls and the election.
Watch (and keep watching) the brief clips below as his supporters became increasingly nasty, even threatening toward the media:
In this clip, one man in particular rages against CNN Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, to the point where Secret Service and/or security appears to intervene:
And these men are setting a fine example for the young boy in tow as they act like school yard bullies tormenting a live news crew:
Donald Trump is fanning the flames of dangerous rhetoric and we can only hope that it does not lead to violence.
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