President Calls Reporter Pig for Good Reason
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STATEMENT FROM EUGENE DELGAUDIO
"Public Advocate has stood with President Trump against the fraud and disgusting lies about Trump and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. We have issued national messages explaining the duplicity and deception practiced by Democrats and some Republicans in this effort to portray Donald Trump as close to the deceased criminal child predator Jeffrey Epstein. We support the President calling a reporter a PIG for her follow up question implying Trump was involved in any way with the criminal activities of Jeffrey Epstein," says Eugene Delgaudio, president of Public Advocate.
(Leftist) Independent reports:
On Air Force One, Trump wagged a finger in a young female reporter's face and barked, "Quiet, piggy" after being asked about the content of emails released by the House Oversight Committee that showed Epstein, a child sex trafficker and convicted pedophile, accusing Trump of "knowing about the girls" involved in his criminal operations. Trump has denied this.
On Thursday, Leavitt played off the incident as a show of the unprecedented access the press corps supposedly had to the president, as compared to Joe Biden, even as the White House has sought to push established pillars of U.S. journalism like wire services out of similar gaggles.
"Look, the president is very frank, and honest with everyone in this room," Leavitt said. "He gets frustrated with reporters when you lie about him, when you spread fake news about him and his administration. But he is also the most transparent president in history.
"I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces rather than hiding behind your backs is a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration," she added.
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