WaPo Editorial Calls Out Trump's 'New Low of Bigotry, Fear-Mongering and Conspiracy-Peddling'

About that tone.

On the same day in which Donald Trump announced his campaign was revoking the Washington Post’s press credentials, the paper published an editorial on the state of Trump’s tone to date.

And by tone we mean, in the words of the piece, Trump’s “new low of bigotry, fear-mongering and conspiracy-peddling.” As these things go, the opening included a summary of Trump’s latest:

As the country mourned the wanton slaughter of 49 people early Sunday, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee took a victory lap, hinted darkly that President Obama is an enemy of the nation, libeled American Muslims and, in grotesque punctuation, finished up with a vindictive attack on the media.

It

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