Trump again stoking anger at Democrats, media
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Donald Trump is again stoking his supporters’ anger at “Crooked Hillary,” other Democrats and the news media, barely missing a beat after mail bombs were sent to some of the most frequent targets of his derision.
Trump set aside some of his usual name-calling at a rally in Wisconsin earlier in the week and made a short-lived plea for unity as authorities pressed ahead with an investigation and intercepted more than a dozen pipe bombs meant for former President Barack Obama, Trump’s 2016 rival Hillary Clinton, other prominent Democrats and CNN.
But after the arrest in Florida of a Trump supporter now charged in the attacks, Trump was back in familiar form at a Charlotte rally Friday night. His reference to “Crooked Hillary Clinton” prompted chants of “Lock her up” and a joke from the president: “Oh boy, they’re going to be reporting about you tonight.”
He assailed the media at length, accusing reporters of trying “to use the sinister actions of one individual to score political points” against him. The crowd broke into frequent chants of “CNN sucks!”
