UN human right chief calls out Trump

The UN human rights chief called out President Trump’s attacks on the press as “incitement” to violence.

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00:00Fake does tremendous damage.

00:12I expressed my anxieties over his comments regarding women, regarding Mexicans.

00:19He mocked a person with disabilities publicly.

00:23The president prides himself as a taboo breaker.

00:28Indeed, his supporters see him as such.

00:31But at the time, I expressed my feeling that this was grossly irresponsible

00:35because it has consequences.

00:38It emboldens those who may think similarly to sharpen their assaults on these communities.

00:47And to call these news organizations fake does tremendous damage.

00:55And to refer to individual journalists in this way, I have to ask the question,

01:00is this not an incitement for others to attack journalists?

01:07And let's assume a journalist is harmed from one of these organizations.

01:14Does the president then not bear responsibility for this, for having fanned this?

01:20Yes, I believe it could amount to incitement.

01:25It's really quite amazing when you think that freedom of the press,

01:30not only a sort of cornerstone of the U.S. Constitution,

01:33but very much something that the United States defended over the years,

01:38is now itself under attack from the president himself.