As Trump launches into yet another Twitter lashout, Kellyanne Conway shakes her head at the 'hateful rhetoric' people use on social media

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In an appearance Friday on Fox & Friends, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway shook her head at the heated language consuming politics and blasted Democrats and the media for their "hateful" rhetoric. Reflecting on the shooting Wednesday at the GOP congressional baseball practice, Conway noted that the alleged shooter's "social media feed was a complete anti-Trump, anti-Republican screed." "I mean for those, particularly in the media, who are so obsessed with the president's social media postings, why isn't everybody looking inside a little bit at what they're posting and what they're saying?" Conway said, right around the time Trump was tweeting criticisms of the investigators in the Russia probe and the "Fake News Media."

Conway claimed that the rhetoric on Twitter has gotten to the point where if she "were shot and killed tomorrow, half of Twitter would explode in applause and excitment." "This is the world we live in now. It's terrible," Conway said. She said while it's "one thing" to disagree on taxes or national security, it's unacceptable to "attack people personally and think tragedies won't happen."

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