The only thing worse than Trump's attack on a journalist is its timing | Ross Barkan

Trump has called the press the ‘enemy of the people’, but mocking the assault of a journalist after Khashoggi’s disappearance is dangerous new territory

The danger of Donald Trump has always been his ability to blizzard your brain with indignities and insanities. There are too many controversies to recall, too many outrages, and like any good strongman wannabe, Trump has so shifted expectations that we can forget just how outrageous and dangerous he remains.

On Thursday night, Trump celebrated the Republican congressman, Greg Gianforte, who body-slammed a Guardian reporter in 2017. Gianforte was asked a question about healthcare and didn’t like it. He attacked the journalist, Ben Jacobs, and won the Montana special election anyway.

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