Meryl Streep rips the 'bully' in Trump | The daily briefing
Streep delivers an emotional speech while La La Land breaks records; Standing Rock inspires other protests; 16 arrested in Kim Kardashian West robbery
La La Land continued its seemingly unstoppable Oscars charge by winning a record-breaking seven awards at the ceremony in Los Angeles Sunday. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone both took home awards for acting and Damien Chazelle won best director for the film. Moonlight took home best picture drama. One of the night's biggest moments, though, saw Meryl Streep deliver a searing and emotional speech, in which she criticized Donald Trump for imitating a reporter with disabilities and called on the press to hold power to account. "Disrespect invites disrespect, violence invites violence. When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose," she said. Trump responded on Twitter, calling Streep a "Hillary flunky" and "one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood", before denying he mocked the reporter.
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