WH Press Member Trying To Slam Sarah Sanders Calls "Blacks For Trump" A Fringe Group

The Daily Mail‘s David Martosko first asked about the fringe groups that were spotted at the Tampa rally last night before asking, “Is the White House willing to say right now, in view of what happened to one of our TV colleagues last night, that it is wrong for his most vocal supporters to be menacing towards journalists doing their jobs in a situation like that or any situation?”

Sanders said Trump “condemns and denounces any group that would incite violence,” but instead of addressing the behavior of the rallygoers last night specifically, she went on to talk about the media’s responsibility — which included a tangent about Osama bin Laden‘s phone:

“The president does think that the media holds a responsibility. We fully support a free press, but there also comes a high level of responsibility with that. The media routinely reports on classified information and government secrets that put lives in danger and risk valuable national security tools. This has happened both in our administration and in past administrations. One of the worst cases was the reporting on the U.S. ability to listen to Osama bin Laden’s satellite phone in the late ’90s. Because of that reporting he stopped using that phone and the country lost valuable intelligence. Unfortunately it’s now standard to abandon common-sense ethical practices. This is a two-way street. We certainly support a free press, we certainly condemn violence against anybody, but we also ask people act responsibly and report accurately and fairly.”