President Donald Trump attacked Hillary Clinton and the news media at a campaign rally Friday night, hours after the arrest of a suspect in a mail bombing scare that targeted CNN and the former Democratic nominee.

"We have seen an effort by the media in recent hours to use the sinister actions of one individual to score political points against me," the president — who resumed referring to his 2016 opponent as "Crooked Hillary" — told the crowd in Charlotte, N.C., hours after the arrest of apparent Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc for allegedly mailing pipe bombs to Clinton and more than a dozen other Democrats and Trump critics.