President Donald Trump rebutted a recent New York Times story claiming he was considering hiring a new lawyer to handle the ongoing Russia probe and called out one of the reporters responsible by name.
The Failing New York Times purposely wrote a false story stating that I am unhappy with my legal team on the Russia case and am going to add another lawyer to help out. Wrong. I am VERY happy with my lawyers, John Dowd, Ty Cobb and Jay Sekulow. They are doing a great job and…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2018
…have shown conclusively that there was no Collusion with Russia..just excuse for losing. The only Collusion was that done by the DNC, the Democrats and Crooked Hillary. The writer of the story, Maggie Haberman, a Hillary flunky, knows nothing about me and is not given access.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2018
Haberman, a White House reporter for The New York Times, wrote Saturday along with her colleague that Trump was considering hiring a veteran Washington lawyer who had previously assisted former President Bill Clinton in the Lewinsky scandal.
Trump’s callout of Haberman comes just hours after he shouted at another familiar foe, NBC’s Chuck Todd. The president told supporters at a recent campaign rally Todd was “a sleeping son of a bitch, I’ll tell you” rekindling his oft repeated insult of Todd as “sleepy eyes.”
Here’s the video of the President of the United States calling a network news host a “sleeping son of a bitch.” (via Fox) pic.twitter.com/aiB5zai2Zi
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 11, 2018