“He made that up,” said Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times on CNN on the morning of April 30th, adding that “he does that sometimes.” Mr Baquet was referring to President Donald Trump’s claim, made to an adoring crowd at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania the day before, that the New York Times had to apologise for the way it had covered Mr Trump during the presidential campaign. It had not. Mr Baquet said the Times was tough and aggressive in its coverage of the president, but always fair.
Mr Trump’s speech in Harrisburg was remarkable not for the familiar boasting about his achievements, the ritualistic promises to build his wall, his talk about lawless immigrants and his vow to repeal and replace Obamacare, but for the amount of time he spent whacking the media. For almost 15 minutes, at the start of his speech, he talked about the failing Times, which he said could not even sell their valuable real estate in Manhattan lucratively, and had to...Continue reading
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