Donald Trump called for “all sides to come together in peace and harmony” in the wake of Wednesday’s bomb scares — then returned to one of his favorite opponents: the media.
“They’ve got to stop, bring people together,” he said at a rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin, hours after pipe bombs were sent to prominent Democrats and the New York offices of CNN.
Authorities are investigating the source of the pipe bombs that were mailed late Tuesday to Hillary and Bill Clinton, former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden, as well as Rep. Maxine Waters.
The devices resembled the one mailed earlier this week to the New York address of the liberal donor George Soros, who is a favorite target of the right.
Trump was criticized Wednesday, most notably by CNN chief Jeff Zucker, for his repeated attacks on the media, including calling the press “the enemy of the American people” and praising physical attacks on journalists, as he did again this week.
At the Wisconsin rally, he made light of the suggestion that he should tone down his rhetoric.
On Thursday, Trump resumed his attacks on the media through his Twitter account, tweeting that "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."