Trump Lashes Out At NYT Over Report That He Mistreats Michael Cohen

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 3: (AFP-OUT) President Donald Trump speaks during a luncheon with the leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on April 3, 2018 at The White House in Washington, DC. The President answered questions from the media about illegal immigration from Mexico and relations with Russia. (Photo by Chris Kleponis-Pool/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 3: (AFP-OUT) President Donald Trump speaks during a luncheon with the leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on April 3, 2018 at The White House in Washington, DC. The President answered ques... WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 3: (AFP-OUT) President Donald Trump speaks during a luncheon with the leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on April 3, 2018 at The White House in Washington, DC. The President answered questions from the media about a wide range of issues including illegal immigration from Mexico and relations with Russia. (Photo by Chris Kleponis-Pool/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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The New York Times hit a nerve with its Friday afternoon report that President Donald Trump does not treat his longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen very well.

Trump fired off a Saturday morning tweet storm blasting the New York Times report and one of its authors, Maggie Haberman. The President claimed that he has always treated Cohen well and predicted that Cohen will not cooperate with investigators for their probe into his business dealings, as the Times report suggested.

Trump also appeared to diss former aide Sam Nunberg, who was quoted in the New York Times story, by calling him “a drunk/drugged up loser.”

Trump originally misspelled Haberman’s name in the tweet, but he deleted and retweeted his rant with the correct spelling of her name.

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  1. TPM, some new articles are posting without the comment button. Please fix it.

  2. And this is the person who thinks he can out-negotiate North Korea … and will claim that he did no matter how badly he gets fleeced.

    Sad.

  3. FB and Twitter are awash in Oval Office photos of Trump hugging Haberman while grinning like the cat that ate the canary.

    The Emperor’s nakedness is becoming apparent to everyone except Republican die-hards who get all their “news” from Fox.

  4. Avatar for sanni sanni says:

    Except DontheCon we can read your insults in your tweets. We hear you demean targets i your speeches, and we hear you mock even your allies and appointees. You mistreat everyone. The story is 100% believable because this is who you are.

    Off topic - but seems noteworthy but easy to fly under the radar:

    @mattinpa

  5. Sorry to state the obvious again, but the moron is mentally ill (which does not contradict with his clear criminal intent). “I don’t speak to and have nothing to do with” Maggie is not just a lie but a totally unnecessary one. And stupid. But he can’t help tweeting it anyway.

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