It appears to be that Trump’s public war of the media has started to be turned against him. After Trump declared open war against the media at his impromptu press conference last month, it seemed as though the media was not going to take it, as seen in Steve Benen’s recent article, “Team Trump’s Russian communications come into sharper focus.”
After Michael Flynn’s security scandal there have been two more outing more of Trump’s staff as having not only communicated with Russian officials, but lied about it. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, J.D. Gordon, and Carter Page have all been implicated in this story. Benen takes the tone of someone standing back, laughing, as an enemy of his blows himself up; several times he during this article he talks as if he sarcastically telling Trump or his allies to try and dispute him, “Before Trump’s allies start denouncing these revelations as “fake news,” it’s worth noting that the Times’ report is based on information voluntarily disclosed.”(Benen 64-65). This line acts as a battlecry; a way for Benen to say, come at me because you did this to yourself. It shows once again this lack of respect for Trump that Benen has. He conveys this idea even more with his choice of words, “The fact that White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer argued earlier this week that the Russia scandal had run its course… is increasingly hilarious.”(71-72). His choice of the word “increasingly”, adds to this feeling that he already found it funny before, but now he couldn’t contain himself anymore, and that he felt as though Spicer and the Trump administration were digging a hole for themselves that he took large amounts of amusement from. Not only that but rather than just being happy about the news he was in a state of hilarity. Link to the article: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/team-trumps-russian-communications-come-sharper-focus
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