I can't wait till this fucker is gone and shuts ups...

Trump rails against the press following NYT report

By KATIE GALIOTO

President Donald Trump on Wednesday labeled the New York Times “the enemy of the people” in a Tweet, attacking the newspaper over a report in which it spelled out the president's alleged efforts to influence ongoing investigations into his campaign and allies.

“The New York Times reporting is false,” the president wrote online Wednesday morning. “They are a true ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!”

Trump did not refute any specific parts of the Times report in the Tweet, though he responded on Tuesday to a reporter's question about the piece regarding former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker.

The Times reported the president asked if Whitaker could put Geoffrey Berman, a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, in charge of an investigation into pre-election hush payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump. The Times reported that Whitaker told the president that he could not ask Berman to oversee the investigation because the U.S. attorney had already recused himself from it.

“No, not at all, I don’t know who gave you that," Trump told reporters Tuesday when asked about the Times' reporting. "That’s more fake news. There's a lot of fake news out there.”

The president also railed against the press on Twitter earlier Wednesday, saying it has “never been more dishonest.”

“The writers don’t even call asking for verification,” Trump tweeted. “They are totally out of control. Sadly, I kept many of them in business. In six years, they all go BUST!”

Maggie Haberman, one of the Times reporters who authored the piece, said Wednesday on CNN that the Times reached out to the White House multiple times before publishing the report.