Trump: NYT, WaPo ‘reluctant’ to cover shady tarmac meeting
President Trump attacked the New York Times and Washington Post on Tuesday for their alleged reluctance to cover a meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton last year.
“E-mails show that the AmazonWashingtonPost and the FailingNewYorkTimes were reluctant to cover the Clinton/Lynch secret meeting in plane,” Trump tweeted about 2 p.m.
The president was referring to US Justice Department emails obtained under a Freedom of Information request and published by the American Center for Law and Justice.
The emails center around Lynch’s meeting with Clinton on the tarmac of the Phoenix airport in June 2016.
A New York Times reporter is seen in one June 30 email reaching out to a Justice Department official to say he’s “been pressed into service to write about the questions being raised” by the meeting, the Washington Examiner reported.
A reporter with the Washington Post emailed a Justice official the same day to say his editors “are still pretty interested” in the story but that he wanted to “put it to rest,” according to the Examiner.
Former FBI Director James Comey has said the meeting between Bill Clinton and Lynch is what prompted him to publicly confirm his agency’s probe into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Trump also touted his administration’s accomplishments again Tuesday.
“After 200 days, rarely has any Administration achieved what we have achieved..not even close! Don’t believe the Fake News Suppression Polls!” he wrote.