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Posted: 2018-06-29T07:45:50Z | Updated: 2018-06-29T07:45:50Z Capital Gazette Reporter To Trump: 'I Couldn't Give A F**k' About Your Prayers | HuffPost

Capital Gazette Reporter To Trump: 'I Couldn't Give A F**k' About Your Prayers

Im going to need more than some thoughts and prayers, because our whole lives have been shattered," said shooting survivor Selene San Felice.

A shaken journalist who survived Thursday’s deadly attack at The Capital Gazette  newspaper says she “couldn’t give a fuck” about thoughts and prayers if “there’s nothing else.”

Shortly after a gunman shot and killed five staffers at the Maryland newspaper, President Donald Trump tweeted:

The first lady posted a similar tweet offering “thoughts & prayers”:

In an interview with CNN on Thursday night, Capital Gazette writer Selene San Felice told Anderson Cooper what it was like to hide under her desk while the gunman opened fire. She also said the attack had left the newsroom “shaken,” but she was not interested in politicians’ well-worn platitudes. 

“I’ve heard that President Trump sent his prayers. I’m not trying to make this political, right? But we need more than prayers. I appreciate the prayers. I was praying the entire time I was [hiding] under that desk. I want your prayers but I want something else,” San Felice said.

“I’m going to need more than a couple days of news coverage and some thoughts and prayers because our whole lives have been shattered,” she added. “Thanks for your prayers, but I couldn’t give a fuck about them if there’s nothing else.” 

Although CNN didn’t bleep San Felice’s comments, Cooper warned viewers that the interview contained strong language.

San Felice also described feeling deja vu because she had covered the 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando . Forty-nine people died in that attack.

“I remember being so upset hearing about the victims who were texting their families,” she said. “And there I was sitting under a desk texting my parents,  telling them that I love them.”

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