川普在亞利桑那集會上嚴厲批評媒體

President Donald Trump went on an extended tirade against the media on Tuesday evening, equating reporters with traitors calling them “bad people who “don't like our country.”

During a political rally in the Phoenix Convention Center, the president recited previous statements he made criticizing neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan following the fatal August 12 clash in Charlottesville, Virginia. But Trump omitted his most controversial words he used to blame the violence “on both sides.”

Trump also accused the media of not reporting his comments.

“Did they report I said racism is evil?”

“No!,” the crowd loudly replied.

“I'm a person who wants to tell the truth,” Trump declared. “I'm an honest person.”

Arizona's two Republican U.S. senators, who have both clashed with the president, skipped the event. Trump criticized both John McCain and Jeff Flake without mentioning their names.

Trump's presence in the Western state, where he beat Democrat Hillary Clinton by 3.5 percent in last year's presidential election, drew tens of thousands of his supporters and protesters to downtown Phoenix, and intense precautions by security forces hoping to prevent violence.

Tuesday's event in Arizona was Trump's eighth rally in eight months for his 2020 re-election campaign.川普總統星期二晚上對媒體進行了長時間的嚴厲批評。他把記者與叛徒相提並論，稱他們是“不喜歡我們國家的壞人。”

在鳳凰城會議中心舉行的政治集會上，總統重述了他在維吉尼亞州夏洛茨維爾市8月12日發生致命衝突後發表的譴責新納粹分子和三K黨的聲明。但他省略了他在指責“雙方”對暴力均負有責任時所使用的最具爭議的言辭。

川普還指責媒體沒有報道他的評論。他說：“我說種族主義是邪惡的，他們報道了嗎？”人羣大聲迴應說：“沒有！”

川普宣告說： “我是一個希望說實話的人。我是一個誠實的人。”

亞利桑那州的兩位共和黨參議員都與總統發生過沖突，他們沒有參加這次集會。川普未點名地批評了麥凱恩和弗雷克。

在去年的大選中，川普在這個西部州以高出3.5%的選票擊敗了民主黨競選對手希拉里.克林頓。鳳凰城市中心吸引了成千上萬名川普的支持者和抗議者。爲了避免出現暴力活動，安全部隊採取了嚴密的預防措施。

星期二在亞利桑那州的活動是川普爲2020年競選連任在8個月中所舉行的第八次集會。