Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reichhas blamed President Trumpfor the attempted assassination that took place at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night.

In an opinion piece forThe Guardian, Reich laments how the Correspondents’ Dinner was once “where the Washington press corps and Washington officials basked in each other’s celebrity,” but has now become a scene of violence and attempted murder thanks to President Trump and his “grim hostility.”

“Most of the time, Washington is a stage on which actors take on roles and dress up for assigned parts,” Reich writes.

“I remember wearing an uncomfortable tuxedo to the White House correspondents’ dinner while working at the Clinton administration, trying to make pleasant conversation with people who had skewered me that very morning.

“The glamor and swish of the event was at such sharp odds with the hard daily slog of my job that it seemed strangely disembodied, as if everyone had been given a script that they knew was total bullshit.”

“Trump has changed much of this,” Reich continues.

He has brought “grim hostility to the jobs of doing the public’s work and reporting on those who do the public’s work.”

He “personally targets” journalists with “taunts and insults,” including calling one female journalist “piggy” and another “ugly.”

He “also targets newspapers and outlets he doesn’t like,” and has barred the Associated Press from the White House for refusing to endorse the Gulf of America name-change.

“There is aclose relationshipbetween theTrump eraandviolence,” Reich adds, “not just the attempts on his life but also the violence his administration has unleashed on the world, the violence his ICE and border patrol agents have caused inside America, the violence he has incited among his followers.”

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