In repeated attacks President Donald Trump continued to rail against the press on during a campaign rally for Republican Senate candidate Mike Braun in Indiana. Trump was as usual in a mood to criticize journalists and the media. The president’s comments come amid his tweet storm against CNN and only hours after reports that a California man was arrested by the FBI for threatening to kill journalists at the Boston Globe. Trump named The New York Times, CNN and NBC specifically in his complaints against the media.

He complained about a “female journalist,” likely Maggie Haberman, for reporting that he was allegedly unhappy with the “flat” crowd at a West Virginia rally last week. Trump also attacked Haberman a week before for her coverage of his former attorney Michael Cohen, calling Haberman a “Crooked H flunkie.”
Later in the rally, Trump aimed his ire at NBC and suggested it would be a good idea to fire the network chairman, Andy Lack. He then pointed to the cameras at the rally and accused the news outlets of turning off their cameras when media criticism began.

There’s no evidence to support Trump’s claims that networks turn off their cameras purposefully during rallies. The Indiana crowd encouraged Trump’s comments, cheering at the president’s jabs at journalists. At one point Trump paused so the crowd could boo at his mention of CNN.

Trump’s attacks are a continuation of his tweets attacking CNN .Trump took issue with a CNN story published in late July claiming the president knew in advance of his son Donald Jr.’s 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russian surrogates. CNN’s report was based on anonymous sources who claimed to have heard the information from the president’s former attorney Michael Cohen, contradicting Trump’s previous denials of foreknowledge.

CNN responded to Trump on Twitter and stood by its coverage. This hostile rhetoric from Trump continues even as journalists in America face physical threats to their safety. Five journalists were killed in a June 28 shooting at the Capital newsroom in Maryland. Robert D. Chain, was arrested after he called the Boston Globe newsroom repeatedly threatened journalists’ lives. The California man called the Globe journalists the “enemy to the people,” a phrase favored by Trump, and said he would shoot a journalist in the head. Chain allegedly admitted that his calls were a response to what he believed to be negative coverage of Trump.

Trump also has attacked CNN's president Jeff Zucker on Twitter, saying that he should be fired. He said that CNN's "hatred and extreme bias" towards him made the media organisation "unable to function".

Zucker is currently on six weeks' leave from CNN to recover from a heart surgery.CNN declined to comment on the latest tweets, but directed the BBC to its response on Twitter to President Trump's tweets .The broadcaster also pointed out that its ratings this month - 707,000 viewers - were its second highest ever achieved for the month of August.Further, CNN highlighted the fact that comScore's Multi-Platform Media Metrix ranked CNN as number one in multiplatform visitors, mobile visitors, video starts, millennial reach and social following.President Trump has long complained about CNN, maintaining that it is dishonest and focused on its own agenda.

Trump also attacked NBC saying that it was "good news" that NBC News chairman Andy Lack could be facing dismissal over his handling of a series of sexual harassment allegations against high-profile news presenters, as well as the hiring of former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.