{"id":39701,"date":"2017-08-09T06:34:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T06:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=39701"},"modified":"2017-08-09T06:34:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T06:34:45","slug":"trump-hits-new-york-times-washington-post-released-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/trump-hits-new-york-times-washington-post-released-emails.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump hits New York Times, Washington Post over released emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Trump hits New York Times, Washington Post over released emails<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">President Trump lashed out at The New York Times and The Washington Post on Tuesday, claiming that a batch of emails released last week show the newspapers&#8217; &#8220;reluctance&#8221; to cover a private meeting between former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton last summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;E-mails show that the AmazonWashingtonPost and the FailingNewYorkTimes were reluctant to cover the Clinton\/Lynch secret meeting in plane,&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The documents were released Friday by the American Center for Law and Justice, a nonprofit led by one of Trump&#8217;s personal attorneys, Jay Sekulow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The emails released include one from the Times&#8217; Mark Landler, in which he says he has &#8220;been pressed into service to write about&#8221; the meeting between Clinton and Lynch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;I&#8217;m a White House correspondent at the NYT, and I&#8217;ve been pressed into service to write about the questions being raised by the Attorney General&#8217;s meeting with Bill Clinton,&#8221; he wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Another email from the Post&#8217;s Matt Zapotosky shows the reporter asking for a follow-up conversation with Justice Department officials on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;Any chance one of you could give me a call for another, hopefully quick, conversation on this AG-Clinton meeting?&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;My editors are still pretty interested in it, and I&#8217;m hoping I can put it to rest by answering just a few more questions about how the meeting came about&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Both newspapers covered Lynch&#8217;s private meeting with Clinton in June 2016 with multiple reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/345767-trump-hits-new-york-times-washington-post-over-released-emails<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/trump-hits-new-york-times-washington-post-released-emails.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump hits New York Times, Washington Post over released emails President Trump lashed out at The New York Times and The Washington Post on Tuesday, claiming that a batch of emails released last week show the newspapers&#8217; 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