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I give it a week.

barefooted — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 21:49:48 +0000

In reply to more "it's a new Trump" on

I give it a week.

more "it's a new Trump" on

artappraiser — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 21:34:45 +0000

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more "it's a new Trump on the press"

NEW: Pressed on AF1 about calling journalists the “enemy of the people," Trump says he has a lot of respect for the press and calls Thursday's Capital Gazette shooting a “disgrace," per pool.
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) June 29, 2018

Of course, one could argue that the day-to-day flip-flopping lying and prevaricating Trump is the real Trump, past present and future.

FWIW, this afternoon Trump

artappraiser — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 20:42:14 +0000

In reply to Reporter after newsroom shooting: 'We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow'

FWIW, this afternoon Trump made a statement on the shooting on camera that was the appropriate type of statement for a president to make, and then he tweeted it with the video included, copied below. Obviously, this is late, and purposely planned and no doubt was written for him by a speechwriter. My point in pointing it out: they are, or he is, for some reason, trying to make this look like a new Trump on the press issue, at least this one time. If one is going to be cynical (which I am), I think one should think about why that might be. I.E., does it have to do with wanting to exploit the civility issue with an upper hand, or like, does it have to do with gun control, or is it just because some Fox News reporters were freaking out about it or did like Jvanka say something, etc.

Here's the tweet:

Before going any further today, I want to address the horrific shooting that took place yesterday at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland. This attack shocked the conscience of our Nation, and filled our hearts with grief... pic.twitter.com/LALXGhk04b
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2018

We are either snowflakes or

rmrd0000 — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 20:04:59 +0000

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We are either snowflakes or we are not civil. They attack, but they are the real victims.

I read what I thought was a

barefooted — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 19:50:25 +0000

In reply to Marco Rubio thought it was a

I read what I thought was a spot-on comment somewhere regarding civility. The point was that what is suddenly a hot argument about the lack of it is ironic (at best) - considering that fighting back against "political correctness" is what made Trump so popular originally.

Marco Rubio thought it was a

rmrd0000 — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 19:34:50 +0000

In reply to Reporter after newsroom shooting: 'We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow'

Marco Rubio thought it was a good idea to complain about the lack of civility shown by a reporter who survived the massacre. The reporter said FU to Trump’s offer of thoughts and prayers.

https://www.theroot.com/5-journalists-were-killed-and-sen-marco-rubio-is-more-1827239407

WaPo story: https://www

AmericanDreamer — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 17:57:02 +0000

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WaPo story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/06/29/today-we-are-spe...

Just sickening, and heartbreaking.

The New York Times has this

artappraiser — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 06:22:07 +0000

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The New York Times has this background: there doesn't appear to be anything related to politics here, this is all about having a vendetta against them as regards them publishing about his serious harassment of a woman for which he ended up in court. He clearly has anger management issues:

Who Is Jarrod Ramos, the Suspect in the Annapolis Newsroom Shooting? By Timothy Williams & Amy Harmon

[....]A Long-Running Dispute With The Capital

His feud with The Capital, the chain’s daily newspaper, apparently began with a column in 2011 that detailed his alleged harassment of a high school classmate.

After Mr. Ramos reconnected with the classmate in 2009, his emails to her soon turned venomous.

“He seems to think there’s some sort of relationship here that does not exist,” the woman told a judge, according to court documents in a harassment case she brought against Mr. Ramos. “I tried to back away from it, and he just started getting angry and vulgar to the point I had to tell him to stop.”

After she told him not to contact her again, Mr. Ramos wrote in a 2010 email that the woman should “go hang yourself.”

Weeks later, the woman was put on probation at the bank where she worked. A supervisor told her it was because Mr. Ramos had sent an email — and had also called the bank — telling managers that the bank should fire her.

As recently as 2012, Mr. Ramos worked for the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. He has a degree in computer engineering.

A judge gave Mr. Ramos a 90-day sentence, but suspended the jail time. Instead, Mr. Ramos was granted probation before judgment. He was ordered not to contact the woman and to continue getting therapy.

Not long afterward, The Capital published the column that apparently fueled his anger.

A Losing Court Battle

Mr. Ramos filed a lawsuit against the owners of The Capital in 2012, claiming that it had defamed him in reporting that Mr. Ramos had pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor criminal harassment charge. Months later, he filed a fuller complaint alleging invasion of privacy, but the lawsuit was dismissed by a judge the next year because Mr. Ramos was unable to describe how he had been harmed by the newspaper article.

Mr. Ramos, who represented himself in the case, appealed the decision. But in 2015 an appellate court affirmed the lower court’s dismissal of the lawsuit, stating that Mr. Ramos showed little knowledge of defamation law and seemed not to “have learned his lesson.”

[....]

They were worried about

artappraiser — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 06:01:06 +0000

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They were worried about violence from this guy since 2012:

Sources identify suspect in Annapolis Capital shooting as Jarrod Ramos, who had long-running feud with paper

By Ian Duncan & Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs @ Baltimore Sun via CapitalGazette.com, June 28

[....] In 2012, Ramos filed a defamation lawsuit against the paper and a columnist over a July 2011 article that covered a criminal harassment charge against him.

He brought the suit against then-columnist Eric Hartley, naming Capital Gazette Communications and Thomas Marquardt, the paper’s former editor and publisher, as defendants [....]

Marquardt said he wasn’t surprised to hear Ramos identified as the alleged gunman, saying he started harassing the paper and its staff shortly after the 2011 article. The harassment escalated for years with online threats, Marquardt said.

“I was seriously concerned he would threaten us with physical violence,” Marquardt said from his retirement home in Florida. “I even told my wife, ‘We have to be concerned. This guy could really hurt us.’ ”

Marquardt said he called the Anne Arundel County police about Ramos in 2013, but nothing came of it. He consulted the paper's lawyers about filing a restraining order, but decided against it.

“I remember telling our attorneys, 'This is a guy who is going to come in and shoot us,’ ” he said [....]

The Capital Gazette's home page has these memorial pieces for the victims:

The suspect in the shooting

artappraiser — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 01:55:05 +0000

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The suspect in the shooting is Jarrod Warren Ramos, multiple law enforcement sources tell CNN. Here’s an older article about a defamation claim he filed against the newspaper in 2012 that was dismissed.
https://t.co/aUe0bRDx4P
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 29, 2018