Priebus slams media ‘obssession’ with undermining Trump

Published January 22, 2017 2:36pm ET



White House chief of staff Reince Priebus Sunday blasted what he described as the media’s “obsession” with undermining President Trump.

“The point is not the crowd size, the point is the attacks and the attempts to delegitimize this president,” Priebus said on “Fox News Sunday” during a heated discussion about whether reporters fairly portrayed the crowd size at Trump’s inauguration. “There’s an obssession by the media to delegitimize this president, and we are not going to sit back and let that happen.”

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