In Sunday Tweets, Trump Attacks NYT, Boosts Pennsylvania GOP Candidate

MOON TOWNSHIP, PA - MARCH 10: President Donald J. Trump with Rick Saccone speaks to supporters at the Atlantic Aviation Hanger on March 10, 2018 in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. The president made a visit in a bid to... MOON TOWNSHIP, PA - MARCH 10: President Donald J. Trump with Rick Saccone speaks to supporters at the Atlantic Aviation Hanger on March 10, 2018 in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. The president made a visit in a bid to gain support for Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone who is running for 18th Congressional District in a seat vacated by Tim Murphy. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump took to Twitter Sunday to attack the New York Times over a report on potential changes to his legal team.

The Times reported Saturday, citing four unnamed people familiar with the matter, that Trump was in discussions with lawyer Emmet Flood about joining the team assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. The Times noted that Flood, who represented former President Bill Clinton during Clinton’s impeachment proceedings, turned down an opportunity to join Trump’s team this past summer.

Trump denied the story and called one of its authors, the Times’ Maggie Haberman, “a Hillary flunky [who] knows nothing about me and is not given access.”

Haberman appeared unfazed.

Separately, the President tweeted his support of Pennsylvania state Rep. Rick Saccone, who will face off against Democrat Connor Lamb on Tuesday in a special congressional election that could, according to recent polling, produce a Democratic upset in an area that voted heavily for Trump.

Trump incorrectly claimed that “Republicans are 5-0 in recent Congressional races,” leaving out Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL), who beat Trump-endorsed Republican candidate Roy Moore in a December special election, and Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), who in June won a run-off against another Democrat to replace California Attorney General Xavier Becerra in Congress.

Trump spoke at a rally in support of Saccone Saturday night, telling him from the stage: “I hate to put this pressure on you, Rick, but the world is watching, because I won this district.”

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  1. Today’s Trump Watch: Baby spits up his usual mess.

  2. I am VERY happy with my lawyers, John Dowd, Ty Cobb and Jay Sekulow. They are doing a great job and…have shown conclusively that there was no Collusion

    Faint praise when the best thing you can say about your defense team is that they have shown conclusively that you are not guilty of something that is not a crime.

  3. He seems to be forgetting Roy Moore, the credibly accused teen molester.

  4. Exactly. Wonder why he and his people never use the phrase conspired with Russia?

    (answer: because he did it and it’s a crimea biggie crime)

  5. Avatar for stoy stoy says:

    Usually, if I tell a client I won’t take his or her case, I don’t change my mind. Why would Emmett Flood? As a career move?

    Anyway, Trump doesn’t need an impeachment lawyer. He needs an indictment lawyer.

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