US President Donald Trump has clashed with a journalist over her reporting on his health, calling her a 'maggot' and threatening a lawsuit against The New York Times.
The First Amendment protects a free press. It doesn't fund one. HuffPost members help make independent journalism possible. Join today.on Saturday and boasted about his physical and mental condition, just hours after the journalist referred to the president’s health as a “black box.
”“She has made a living off her bad reporting, and will pay the price when our Multi Billion Dollar Lawsuit against The Failing New York Times gets to Court, which should not be that long,” he wrote. He claimed he doesn’t “mind” bad press if it’s correct, but he does mind “Fake Reporting. ” After interjecting that “Maggot is a loser!
” he added that if she “ever wrote the true story” about him, it “would actually be quite boring, but loaded with lots of SUCCESS. ”“His health is like a black box inside that administration much more than almost any other issue,” Haberman replied.
“And if there is an area of failure in the reporting for us, it was this, and trying to ― not mental, per se, but just his health, how he is, why he has gone to Walter Reed several times and they have released less and less information. ”The journalist emphasized she did not “feel equipped to answer” the question of Trump’s “mental acuity,” but added that it’s reasonable to ask questions about Trump’s age.
“I think that people can very legitimately question whether 80-year-old people should be president,” she said. “Got every question right,” he wrote. “Few people in Washington, D.C. , could do so, including Maggot and her flunky associate, Jonathan Swan.
I would be willing to bet they couldn’t get 50% of the questions right. ”By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. You are also agreeing to our
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