Trump escalates clash with CNN reporter, targets her family
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The White House attacked CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes after she asked President Trump a pointed question, with Trump telling her to be quiet and calling her a “fake reporter.” A White House account later invoked Holmes’s children as embarrassing, prompting CNN to defend Holmes and highlighting rising use of personal attacks and social-media tactics in White House-media exchanges.
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- CNN fires back at Trump White House over attacks on reporter, calls them 'beneath the office' Fox News
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