Article snippet: shooting at The Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md., saying journalists in the United States should not have to face grave danger. “This attack shocked the conscience of our nation and filled our hearts with grief,” Trump said at a White House event celebrating his tax-cut law. “Journalists, like all Americans, should be free from the fear of being violently attacked while doing their job.” Trump vowed his administration “will not rest until we have done everything in our power to reduce violent crime and to protect innocent life.” He also extended condolences to the families of the victims, offering “our warmest, best wishes and regrets.” The comments were Trump’s first in-person response to Thursday’s deadly shooting, which left five employees dead at the paper’s Annapolis newsroom. He ignored reporters’ questions about the shooting on Thursday afternoon while returning to the White House, but shortly after the attack tweeted that his “thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.” Later on Friday, the president added, “I have a lot of respect for the press. Some of the greatest people I know are reporters.” Critics have accused the president of fanning hostility toward the news media in a dangerous way. Trump has frequently called journalists the “enemy of the people” and has attacked individual reporters at raucous campaign rallies and on his Twitter account as “fake news.” At the conclusion of Friday’s event, CNN’s Jim Acosta, a fr... Link to the full article to read more