Addressing the latest act of political violence that occurred at the Correspondents’ Dinner at a press briefing last week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated, among other things, that  the writings of the armed man who attempted to infiltrate the event are  “indistinguishable” from what reporters say every day. But what reporters are saying everyday is what the President of the United States is doing, how he behaves, and how his policies are impacting Americans. Ali Velshi asks how telling the American people the truth about that Donald Trump is the moral equivalent of political violence.

The administration is not bothering to argue that the media’s reporting is wrong anymore. Trump officials are instead pointing the finger for political violence at the press, the opposition party, and anyone who is accurately documenting the president’s record. They are arguing that the press should stop reporting how bad Trump is for democracy, how he’s unfit for the office, a convicted criminal, and enriches himself through open corruption — because reporting these facts are the cause of political violence.

The argument is that the press should stop reporting it, because the reporting is what is dangerous. Today, Velshi reminds us that the First Amendment serves to protect the free press, and all Americans, from authoritarian regimes who demonize the truth in an effort to maintain their grip on power, and asks, who has actually used the language of violence against their perceived opponents?

“The record is not ambiguous, this is not in any meaningful sense a both sides story,” Velshi points out.

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