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Unhinged: Journalist Says Trump Inauguration Worse Than 9/11

Derek Hunter Contributor
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Canadian journalist Doug Saunders could not contain his disgust of President Donald Trump Friday when he compared the New York businessman becoming the leader of the free world with the 9/11 terrorist attacks that murdered 3,000 Americans.

“If you thought you’d never see anything on TV as frightening as 9/11, this was it. But the consequences of this are far more damaging,” Saunders tweeted.

The breathless declaration was greeted with agreement by a fellow Canadian journalist, Scott Deveau, who writes for Bloomberg Canada.

Screen capture from Twitter

Screen capture from Twitter

As expected, there was also a lot of pushback.

Undeterred, Saunders continued: