1/21/2017

MEDIA: "President Trump used his first full day in office on Saturday to unleash a remarkably bitter attack on the news media, falsely accusing journalists of both inventing a rift between him and intelligence agencies and deliberately understating the size of his inauguration crowd…
Later, at the White House, he dispatched Sean Spicer, the press secretary, to the briefing room in the West Wing, where Mr. Spicer scolded reporters and made a series of false statements.
He said news organizations had deliberately misstated the size of the crowd at Mr. Trump’s inauguration on Friday in an attempt to sow divisions at a time when Mr. Trump was trying to unify the country, warning that the new administration would hold them to account."

 – “With False Claims, Trump Attacks Media on Turnout and Intelligence Rift,” The New York Times online, Jan 21, 2017, Julie Hirshfeld Davis and Matthew Rosenberg, 1/21/2017

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