Trump calls journalists “enemy of the people” at Pennsylvania rally minutes before man storms media area

A man attends an election campaign. Donald Trump on Friday has been attacked media, attempted to climb the side of the fenced area, before being tasered by law enforcement at the scene, according to a videotape posted on social media by a CBS News reporter.

Less than ten minutes ago, the former president call Journalists are “enemies of the people.”

Trump declared that New York Times is losing “reader after reader,” which gives him joy. “I have to be happy about that,” the Republican presidential candidate began, “because they are the enemy of the people. They are the enemy of the people. They make up stories about me that are false—that’s all they do is they write stories that are false.”

Earlier in his speech, Trump also directly criticized CNN after the organization exclusive live interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz the day before.

“It was a very weak interview from CNN’s perspective. I think CNN should be ashamed of themselves,” Trump said before describing how he would respond to questions from the organization. The network’s interviews with Harris and Walz were viewed about 6.3 million viewers on Thursday, according to Nielsen data, nearly double the 3.3 million viewers adjusted for Trump’s live talk show on CNN in May 2023.

As the incident unfolded near the media area, Trump once again criticized the press’s coverage of the 2024 election.

The former president appeared to begin watching the interaction, saying, “great,” before repeatedly noting, “he’s on our side.” It’s unclear how much Trump saw of the situation and whether he was referring to the man’s actions or the response of law enforcement. Although, at the start of the situation, he smiled and said, “We’re a little itchy, David, aren’t we?” (Dave McCormick, who is running for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, spoke at the rally.)

As interactions with law enforcement continued on the campaign floor, Trump turned to talking about failed assassination against him at another rally in Pennsylvania in July, claiming that the man was holding up a symbol— now famous The “Angel” of the American flag—from that day on.

At that event, immediately after the first gunshots rang out, some protesters turned against the media who had also survived. a mass shooting.

“Some people in the crowd started coming to the podium,” NBC Dasha Burnswho reported live from the protest in Butler, PA, speak at that point. “They started getting angry with the press… started blaming the press for what had just happened.”