Trump puts ‘fake news media’ in line of fire (VIDEO)

The US presidential candidate’s inflammatory remark about the press came just days before the election

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he would not mind if a would-be assassin were to shoot through the “fake news” reporters covering his events.

Trump, who has had a longstanding feud with leading American news organizations, has survived one assassination attempt already during the campaign while a pro-Ukraine activist was arrested on suspicion of planning to shoot the former president near his golf course earlier this year.  

Trump made his remarks at a campaign rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania on Sunday, with two days to go before the US election. During his speech, he noted that there were gaps in the panes of bullet-proof glass around him, and that some of the reporters had a sight line through one of the gaps. 

“I have this piece of glass over here, and I don’t have a piece of glass there,” Trump said. “But all we have really over here is the fake news, right? And to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. And I don’t mind that so much. I don’t mind. I don’t mind,” he said, eliciting laughter from the crowd.

At the same rally, Trump described news organizations as being full of “seriously corrupt people.” He singled out ABC, CBS and NBC. “The media is so damn bad. It’s unbelievable,” he told supporters. 

President Trump on intelligence and shooting through the Fake News