Analysis: Trump's war against the media has reached new heights
The vitriol from the president against the media has “ratcheted up a level,”Lockhart said, however, that it may not matter.
On the front line of Trump's tirade against the media is his embattled press secretary, Sarah Sanders, who admitted under oath she made false statements to the press after Trump fired then FBI director James Comey. Sanders has not issued a public correction. American Urban Radio Networks's April Ryan has called for Sanders to be fired: “She’s been caught in lie after lie. It’s beyond spin. She speaks for the president, so it’s life and death. In any other job, if someone acknowledged they lied under oath, they’d be gone. They’d be terminated.”
McCurry said he feels some sympathy toward Sanders “because she is a mom and has a family and is actually a very engaging and amicable person.” But McCurry's approach to the Lewinsky scandal — which he said was key to maintaining a good relationship with the press — was by abandoning his access to the president.
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