By Martin Pengelly
Donald Trump’s attacks on the press are “out of control” and damaging
“the civic life and debate of the country”, the editor of the New York Times said on Sunday.
Dean Baquet was responding to a tweet in which the president attacked his main rival.
“The Washington Post is far more fiction than fact,” Trump wrote.
“Story after story is made up garbage – more like a poorly written
novel than good reporting. Always quoting sources (not names), many of
which don’t exist. Story on John Kelly isn’t true, just another hit
job!”
The Post story
in question concerned the reportedly waning power of the White House
chief of staff, John Kelly, and what the paper called “recurring and
escalating clashes [with] the president [that] trace the downward arc of
Kelly’s eight months in the White House”.
The Post said the story was based on “interviews with 16 administration
officials, outside advisers and presidential confidants, many of whom
spoke on the condition of anonymity”.
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Source: The Guardian
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