Donald Trump
Donald Trump showed no signs at his most recent campaign rally of cowering to a critical press that's been slamming him for saying all Muslims should be halted at the border for the time being, turning up the temperature on the rhetoric and calling out the mainstream media as "scum."
Among his comments at his Monday evening South Carolina rally: The media is "scum" and "the mainstream media want to surrender the Constitution," he said, the Hill reported.
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He then turned critical eyes directly on certain members of the press.
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"These people back here are the worst," he said, pointing directly at a particular group of reporters in the crowd. "They are so dishonest ... 70 to 75 percent are absolutely dishonest. Absolute scum. Remember that. Scum. Scum. Totally dishonest people."
And he then named names.
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Trump mentioned NBC reporter Katy Tur, and told of her previous story of his leaving a rally early – a story he said was false.
"She's back there, Little Katy," Trump said, the Hill reported. "What a lie it was ... what a lie it was for NBC to have written that. Total lies ... a third-rate reporter. Remember that. Third rate."
Tur responded on Twitter.
"Awww," she wrote. "Women in the crowd are giving me sympathetic looks."
