Donald Trump blamed the “mainstream media fake news” for the “anger in our society” hours after White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders admonished CNN President Jeff Zucker for “attacking and dividing” by criticizing Trump’s attacks on the media. The exchange came in the wake of a series of suspicious pipe bomb devices were sent to CNN and prominent Democrats around the country.

Tweeted Trump: “A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News. It has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description. Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST!”

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1055418269270716418

Trump’s attack came just hours after this tweet from Sanders: ‘.@realDonaldTrump asked Americans “to come together and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the USA” Yet you chose to attack and divide. America should unite against all political violence.’

.@realDonaldTrump asked Americans “to come together and send one very clear, strong, unmistakable message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the USA” Yet you chose to attack and divide. America should unite against all political violence. https://t.co/Dlo3xwHyKi

— Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived (@PressSec45) October 25, 2018

Trump also attacked the New York Times, tweeting: “The so-called experts on Trump over at the New York Times wrote a long and boring article on my cellphone usage that is so incorrect I do not have time here to correct it. I only use Government Phones, and have only one seldom used government cell phone. Story is soooo wrong! … The New York Times has a new Fake Story that now the Russians and Chinese (glad they finally added China) are listening to all of my calls on cellphones. Except that I rarely use a cellphone, & when I do it’s government authorized. I like Hard Lines. Just more made up Fake News!”

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1055412328571850753

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