Trump Releases List Of ‘Unreported’ Terror Attacks That Includes Attacks The Media Covered For Weeks
Donald Trump has spent time recently claiming that the media isn’t reporting on terror attack – suggesting that they are somehow suppressing them for some kind of nefarious reasons. And to prove that the media isn’t reporting on terror attacks the Trump White House released a list of terror attacks that were thoroughly reported by the media.
On Monday, the White House issues a list of terrorist attacks it says “have not received the media attention they deserved.”
The list includes terror attacks from September 2014 to December 2016, containing 78 attacks planned or carried out by the Islamic State or their followers.
The list includes major attacks, such as in Brussels, Nice, the November 2015 massacre in Paris and mass shootings in San Bernardino, California and Orlando, Florida which were covered by the media for weeks.
Earlier in the day, during his first speech to the American Troops, Trump said, “It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported,” Trump said at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL. “And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it.”
Anderson Cooper: I know we covered the attacks, I was there
Anderson Cooper on his show tonight shot down the claims by the Trump administration saying he knows CNN covered the attacks saying, “I was there.”
‘It’s a head-scratcher’
CNN’s Jim Acosta on Erin Burnett’s show tonight held up the list and said, “There are 78 attacks listed on this list, and I have to tell you, Erin, it’s a head-scratcher.”
Acosta continued by saying that the list includes Paris, San Bernardino, Brussels, Istanbul, and Nice – all of which he reminded us that the press “covered extensively.”
“It’s puzzling,” he said, “as to why the White House would include these attacks on this list when they were covered for days on end.”
