President Trump is continuing to blast the mainstream media’s reporting of a meeting between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch on an airport tarmac last June.
President Trump is continuing to blast the mainstream media’s reporting of a meeting between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch on an airport tarmac last June.
The president tweeted Tuesday, “E-mails show that the AmazonWashingtonPost and the FailingNewYorkTimes were reluctant to cover the Clinton/Lynch secret meeting in plane.”
He was likely referring to a Washington Examiner report he had previously retweeted on August 4 when the story was published.
The piece states, “reporters with the Washington Post and New York Times were apparently less than enthusiastic about covering the controversial private meeting…”
It goes on to say, based on emails released by the American Center for Law and Justice, that “Mark Landler, a reporter for the Times, is seen in one June 30 email reaching out to a DOJ official to say he's ‘been pressed into service to write about the questions being raised’ by the meeting.”
The story adds that “Matt Zapotosky with the Post emailed a DOJ official the same day after several other emails to say that his editors ‘are still pretty interested’ in the story but that he wanted to ‘put it to rest.’”
The Examiner then points out, “When news initially broke of the meeting, the Times did not publish any stories about the meeting for more than 24 hours…”
The report isn’t the first time Trump has been prompted to speak out about the private meeting; he said on a radio show last year, “They actually went on to the plane as I understand it. That’s terrible. And it was really a sneak. It was really something that they didn’t want publicized as I understand it. Wow, I just think it’s so terrible, I think it’s so horrible.”
Trump was later quoted as saying, “It’s a massive story now. It’s all over the place. Even the liberal media’s making it a big story, which is shocking to me, because it’s so out of bounds. Wow, that’s an amazing thing.”
Lynch has denied any wrongdoing, saying the meeting was coincidental and did not involve her department’s ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, notes the New York Times.
