Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted out the names of individual reporters, calling them “haters” of President Trump.
The White House has been celebrating what it views as vindication of President Donald Trump on the Mueller probe by attacking the media harshly.
The move comes amid increasing hostility against journalists from Trump’s staunchest supporters, and as authorities crack down on foiled plots to violently target the members of the press whom Trump himself has called a threat to the country.
Monday night — just one day after Attorney General William Barr delivered his summary of special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings to lawmakers on Capitol Hill — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted out a graphic from The New York Post containing a “Mueller Madness” bracket of various media pundits who were believed to be biased against Trump. The bracket also included the names of several reporters who had written or reported on the probe.
View the complete March 26 article by Zack Ford on the ThinkProgress website here.