April Ryan — I Blame Trump For Inciting Media Hate; WH Republican Sources Give Me Info!

“It is getting worse,” she said. “There is collateral damage. It affects not only the reporter but the people who are around the reporter.”

Known as an unrelenting challenger of President Donald Trump‘s administration, bringing a routinely hard line of questioning to the briefing room, Ryan felt that Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders missed the chance to make things right with reporters as the commander in chief continues to undermine their reputation.

She “had a chance to pull back, saying we’re [not] the enemy of the people. She didn’t,” Ryan said of Sanders, who has defended the president despite his constant use of the disparaging phrase.

“When I report, I speak the truth,” Ryan told Avlon. “And I have Republican sources who are in the inner circle, who give up the information. I don’t go in an office and go through a file cabinet. I’m given the information. Why? Because they’re whistleblowers and this administration does not like it.”