The Reuters editor who tweeted to President Donald Trump that "blood is on your hands" for the mass shooting at a Maryland newspaper that left five dead used the tragedy to foment anti-Trump bias, former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci told Newsmax TV on Friday.
"This tragedy was not related to anything that the president did and so what I find alarming is… it really does bubble up the biases that are in the media," Scaramucci said on Newsmax's "America Talks Live."
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"And so what that gentleman was looking to do was just find something to tag the president with and so he's blaming a tragedy where there are families involved and there were innocent lives that were extinguished from the earth yesterday.
"And he's got to figure out a way to use his Trump derangement syndrome to fit that story into the president's narrative."
The Hill reports that in a tweet that has since been deleted, global and breaking news editor Rob Cox wrote, "This is what happens when @realDonaldTrump calls journalists the enemy of the people. Blood is on your hands, Mr. President. Save your thoughts and prayers for your empty soul."
Cox was responding to Trump sending his "thoughts and prayers" to the victims of the Capital Gazette bloodbath and their families. He later apologized for commenting "emotionally and inappropriately."
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