Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter for quoting the manifesto of the suspected gunman who opened fire on the White House press dinner Saturday.
The president called CBS News journalist Norah O’Donnell “disgraceful” for reading out segments of the text during a 60 Minutes interview Sunday.
The document, allegedly sent to family members of 31-year-old suspect Cole Tomas Allen before the attack , read that “I’m no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes”.
Presented with the manifesto as evidence of a possible motive, Trump quickly hit back at O’Donnell, saying: “I was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you’re horrible people. Horrible people. Yeah, he did write that. I’m not a rapist.…