ANTI-SEMITISM/MEDIA/RACISM/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Claiming the media holds him to a higher standard than his rivals, President Donald Trump doubled down Monday [10-29-18] night on the type of rhetoric his critics have argued influenced the perpetrators of a mail bomb scare against CNN and high-profile Democrats last week and a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue over the weekend…In his first network television interview since those stories of domestic terrorism came to dominate headlines side by side, the president said that journalists did not seek to implicate President Barack Obama in a racially motivated shooting at an African-American church in Charleston, S.C., that left nine parishioners dead in June 2015. The president similarly claimed that the media did not tag Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to a shooting at a Republican congressional baseball practice in 2017 carried out by a former volunteer for Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) was critically wounded in that assault.”
–Quint Forgey, “Trump detects media bias in fallout from bomb scare, synagogue shooting,” Politico, October 30, 2018 1:01 am