Donald Trump to NBC's Katy Tur: 'Be quiet'
Donald Trump once again targeted NBC News correspondent Katy Tur during a Wednesday news conference, telling the reporter to “be quiet.”
Tur asked Trump whether he has “any qualms about asking a foreign government ... to hack into a system of anybody’s in this country” after Trump said he hoped Russia would find more emails from Hillary Clinton or the DNC.
“Hey, you know what gives me more pause, that a person in our government, crooked Hillary Clinton — here’s what gives me more pause,” Trump said, as Tur tried to ask follow-ups. “Be quiet, I know you want to, you know, save her. That a person in our government, Katy, would delete or get rid of 33,000 emails. That gives me a big problem. After she gets a subpoena. She gets subpoenaed, and she gets rid of 33,000 emails. That gives me a problem. Now, if Russia or China or any other country has those emails, I mean to be honest with you, I’d love to see them.”
As Tur asked another question a few minutes later, mentioning Trump's poll numbers, Trump once again mocked her.
“Katy just said that, many polls show you are winning. Are you Katy Tur of NBC? It’s a disguise,” he said.
This is far from the first time Trump has picked on Tur. In June, Trump told “Fox & Friends” that his campaign “don’t even let her in” or let people talk to her “because she’s not a very good reporter.”
In December, Trump called out Tur in the middle of a rally, leading Trump supporters to point at her and boo. “Little Katy, third-rate journalist,” Trump said, as he complained about the news media.
After the Trump news conference on Wednesday, MSNBC host Tamron Hall asked Tur to respond.
“You’re not making it personal. You’re a journalist and you’ve been covering the campaign from the beginning,” Hall said. “You have tough skin, but on the day after we saw 102-year-old woman on the floor applaud the first female nominated to a major party, there you are being told to be quiet by the nominee. I’m not asking you to make this personal, what, though, were you asking.”
“Tamron, I’m not good at being quiet, and I won’t continue to be quiet in any way, shape, or form,” Tur said before explaining her questions to Trump.