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“It’s a very strange thing to get emails that say, ‘I’m going to come rip off your skin and dismember you, and your family isn’t safe either.’ 

 

“It’s upsetting to have people express such hatred and creative violent imagery about you.”

—Michael D’Antonio, veteran journalist, 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of 2015 Trump biography “Never Enough,” has received threatening phone calls and emails, and been the subject of the president’s tweets, in “The Disinformation Age,” UNH Today, Nov. 21, 2019. (Thanks to alert WORDster Andrew Merton) 
Image: Trump rally, Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, 2016: Jonathan Ernst, Reuters

• Editorial Comment: Hazardous duty.

 

 

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