5:26
- ABC News
- Donald Trump
- April 28, 2019
Trump takes aim at 2020 Dems at Wisconsin rally
The president skipped the annual D.C. gathering for the third straight year.
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Ultimately, the special counsel's office did not find sufficient evidence to suggest that members of the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with the Russians. The report made no conclusion, however, on the matter of possible obstruction of justice by the president.
Despite Mueller's detailed findings into Russian meddling, Trump's senior advisers maintain it was the candidate's message that ultimately resulted in his upset 2016 victory.
\"Donald Trump won — we didn't need WikiLeaks. We had Wisconsin. He won because he was the better candidate with a better message,\" Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on \"This Week\" last Sunday.
During the rally, the president also invited on stage White House press secretary Sarah Sanders who seemed to relish the crowd's chants of her name and acknowledged that last year she was at \"a slightly different event\" where she didn't get \"the best welcome.\" Last year, Sanders bore the brunt of comedienne Michelle Wolf’s acerbic routine at the the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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Trump's rally coincided with this year's press dinner, which he skipped for the third year in a row, and his administration boycotted the celebration of journalistic freedoms.
During the dinner, keynote speaker, presidential biographer and historian Ron Chernow gave a historical, and, at times comical, account of the sometimes tense relationship between presidents and the press since the nation's founding and the need to hold governments accountable.
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“My main theme tonight is that the relations between presidents and the press are inevitably tough, almost always adversarial, but they do not need to be steeped in venom,” Chernow said.
He also lauded the journalistic tradition of exposing the ills of slavery, discrimination, labor abuses and government corruption.
The historian advised journalists on how to respond to President Trump when he dubs the press the \"enemy of the people\" advising journalists to take inspiration from Noreweigan playwright Henrik Ibsen's play about a man who was shunned for telling an unpopular truth, \"An Enemy of the People.\"
\"I hadn't realized that the president was a student of Norwegian literature, did you realize that?” Chernow joked and told the crowd to wear the title as a badge of honor.
ABC News' Kelsey Walsh contributed to this report.
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