WHITE HOUSE — U.S. President Donald Trump, amid the uproar over his initial summit this week with Russia’s president, is indicating there could be a second such meeting with Vladimir Putin. Trump, writing on Twitter, called Monday’s summit in Helsinki “a great success, except with the real enemy of the people, the Fake News Media.” In […]
WASHINGTON — As he headed to the Helsinki summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump unleashed a new attack Sunday on two of his favorite targets, the U.S. news media and opposition Democrats. The U.S. leader contended on Twitter that the American news media “is indeed the enemy of the people and all […]
WHITE HOUSE — With the number of journalists imprisoned worldwide at an all-time high, press freedom groups are drawing a direct line between President Donald Trump’s verbal slugfest with some of America’s most venerable news institutions and the adoption of his “fake news” mantra by autocrats and dictators around the world. “We’re seeing an unprecedented […]
President Donald Trump went back to blaming both sides for Saturday’s deadly racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, after Monday’s statement in which he condemned the neo-Nazis and white separatists, but made no mention of counterprotesters. Trump stood in the lobby of his New York office tower Tuesday to talk about rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure. But […]