Trump invites network executives, anchors, and reporters to a ‘f---ing firing squad’

Mark Sumner

Daily Kos Staff

Monday November 21, 2016 · 7:03 PM PST

2016/11/21 · 19:03

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 31: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a sheet of paper with his donations listed at a news conference at Trump Tower where he addressed issues about the money he pledged to donate to veterans groups following a skipped a debate in January before the Iowa caucuses on May 31, 2016 in New York City. Trump had previously said he had raised $6 million at the nationally broadcast fund-raiser he attended instead of the debate and that he would donate it all to veterans groups. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Network executives and anchors who went for an “off the record” meeting with Donald Trump Monday afternoon were apparently told they’d be discussing press access during the Trump administration. Instead, Donald Trump delivered a screaming harangue aimed at execs, anchors, reporters … and pictures.

“It was like a f---ing firing squad,” one source said of the meeting. "Trump started with [CNN President] Jeff Zucker and said, ‘I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed.’"

… “Trump kept saying, ‘We’re in a room full of liars, the deceitful dishonest media who got it all wrong,'" the source said. "He addressed everyone in the room calling the media dishonest, deceitful liars. Trump didn’t say [NBC reporter] Katy Tur by name, but talked about a female correspondent who got it wrong.

Trump also complained about photos used by NBC, which he found “unflattering.”

Asked about the meeting, Kellyanne Conway said the reports of a Trump tirade weren’t true, and closed her statement with this fine reassurance for Freedom of Speech.

“By the way, it's an off-the-record meeting so whoever said that and mischaracterized it should think twice."

Who leaked the contents of the meeting? HUD Secretary Julián Castro has an idea.

Total power play by Trump to make these media folks look like children getting their scolding. He probably leaked it https://t.co/a51fgbTnoq
— JuliÃÂ¡n Castro (@JulianCastro) November 22, 2016

It wasn’t just that Trump invited them up to be yelled at, he invited them up to be humiliated, so that he could them leak the news about how he kicked them in the balls and made them like it.

Trump invites network executives, anchors, and reporters to a ‘f---ing firing squad’

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