mo4ch:>Trump says tweeting is his ‘ONLY FORM OF DEFENSE’ against hostile press | Mo4ch News

Trump explained his penchant for Twitter, arguing that the platform allows him to fight back against biased media coverage. He said his prolific and often divisive tweeting wouldn’t be necessary if the press covered him fairly.Questioned about his controversial tweets and their effect on the country’s political climate, President Donald Trump told C-SPAN’s Steve Scully that he simply needed a way to counter the “fake news” media.If I got fair coverage I wouldn’t even have to tweet. It’s my only form of defense. If the press covered me fairly, I wouldn’t need that. But they don’t cover me fairly.He complained that instead of covering the contents of a speech he gave in Jamestown, the media fixated on a protester who interrupted his address.“It wasn’t like, ‘Gee we have 25,000 people going crazy. There was one person,” he stressed, describing the media’s infatuation with the incident as “terrible” and “sad.”Many of Trump’s most controversial tweets have taken aim at the news outlets. He…