MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump on Wednesday [2-20-19] labeled The New York Times ‘the enemy of the people’ in a tweet, attacking the newspaper over a report in which it spelled out the president’s alleged efforts to influence ongoing investigations into his campaign and allies…Trump did not refute any specific parts of the Times report in the tweet, though he responded on Tuesday [2-19-19] to a reporter’s question about the piece regarding former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. The Times reported the president asked whether Whitaker could put Geoffrey Berman, a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, in charge of an investigation into pre-election hush payments to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump. The Times reported that Whitaker told the president that he could not ask Berman to oversee the investigation because the U.S. attorney had already recused himself from it.”
–Katie Galioto, “Trump rails against the press after NYT report,” Politico, February 20, 2019 12:38 pm