Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to hammer the "corrupt media" for its coverage of his campaign, singling out the New York Times as "failing."
The New York Times published a story Saturday headlined "Inside the Failing Mission to Tame Donald Trump's Tongue."
Here’s how Trump responded.
The failing @nytimes has become a newspaper of fiction. Their stories about me always quote non-existent unnamed sources. Very dishonest!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2016
The failing @nytimes talks about anonymous sources and meetings that never happened. Their reporting is fiction. The media protects Hillary!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2016
The failing @nytimes, which never spoke to me, keeps saying that I am saying to advisers that I will change. False, I am who I am-never said
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2016
Trump said that if the media covered him honestly, he'd be ahead of his opponent Hillary Clinton by 20 percent.
If the disgusting and corrupt media covered me honestly and didn't put false meaning into the words I say, I would be beating Hillary by 20%
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2016
Trump also criticized the coverage of his rallies, saying the "real message" is never discussed.
My rallies are not covered properly by the media. They never discuss the real message and never show crowd size or enthusiasm.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2016
Trump's campaign manager Paul Manafort echoed these thoughts Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper.
.@PaulManafort : Trump's 2nd amendment comment not a threat https://t.co/vg5Ryvrtbv
— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) August 14, 2016
“You could’ve covered what he was saying, or you could try and take a side and take the Clinton narrative, and you chose to do that instead,” Manafort said. “You had a number of things that were appropriate to this campaign, were part of what Mr. Trump has been talking about.”
He added, "Instead, you took an aside that the Clinton narrative told you was something, Mr. Trump told you he didn't mean, and you played it out for two days."
.@PaulManafort : Media coverage skewed https://t.co/e6whegxFFW
— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) August 14, 2016
Manafort was referring to the media’s response to Trump’s statement about “Second Amendment people” at a rally in North Carolina some interpreted as a threat.
“If [Clinton] gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although, the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know,” he said.
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