Maryland Senate candidate Rep. David Trone has been no stranger to controversy on the campaign trail
The Democrat frontrunner in one of this year’s top Senate races went off on a reporter this week who pressed him concerning a controversial remark he made on social media about police.
The tense exhange between Rep. David Trone, D-Md., and Fox 5 reporter Tom Fitzgerald happened during a campaign stop in Rockville, Maryland, on Tuesday, when Trone expressed his anger about the outlet’s reporting from the previous day on his claim that an “increased police presence” doesn’t make people feel safe.
“You should be ashamed of the journalism that you did yesterday,” Trone, who is running to replace retiring Democrat Sen. Ben Cardin, said as he approached the reporter.
“I should be ashamed? I’m not ashamed, congressman,” Fitzgerald responded before Trone accused him of cherry-picking lines out of his lengthy X post focused on crime and policing.
Trone made the widely panned post on Monday, claiming the American justice system is “systemically racist,” and that an “increased police presence” doesn’t “make everyone feel safer.”