CNN reporter delivers sharp response after Trump brands her “stupid” and “nasty”

Donald Trump has a well-documented pattern of going after the press, and lately his criticism has been aimed most often at female reporters.

Now, one of the women he’s gone after is firing back.

“Nothing to do with gender”

There was a time when it would’ve been unthinkable for a U.S. president to publicly call a journalist “ugly” or label an elected official “retarded.” But what used to be a national scandal has become just another day in American politics.

In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has come under renewed scrutiny for a series of attacks aimed at reporters. Nearly all of the reporters who’ve drawn the president’s anger lately have been women, though the White House maintains his comments have “nothing to do with gender.”