The “piggy” remark wasn’t an isolated episode. Over the course of the week, Trump targeted several reporters in a series of tense, unusually sharp exchanges. “You are the worst.” At a weekend briefing, a reporter interjected mid-sentence. Trump glared at her and said: “You are the worst. I don’t know why they even have you.”
Mary Bruce Confrontation. During another exchange, ABC’s Mary Bruce questioned him about Jamal Khashoggi’s 2018 killing by Saudi agents. Trump’s response was alarming: “I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and it’s so wrong.” Press freedom advocates immediately condemned the remark as an authoritarian threat.
The Broader Context: Epstein Files, Election Pressure, and Public Scrutiny
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