Donald Trump has lashed out at the “failing” New York Times in an overnight Truth Social rant, demanding an apology for its “junk” coverage of him and singling out its correspondent Maggie Haberman for particular criticism. “Will the failing New York Times apologize to its readers for getting years of ‘Trump’ coverage so wrong,” the president-elect wrote in the post . “They write such phony ‘junk’, knowing full well how incorrect it is, only meaning to demean.
” Pivoting to Haberman, Trump mockingly misspelled the reporter’s name as he wrote: “Magot Hagerman, a third rate writer and fourth rate intellect, writes story after story, always terrible, and yet I almost never speak to her. “They do no fact checking, because facts don’t matter to them. “I don’t believe I’ve had a legitimately good story in the NYT for years, AND YET I WON, IN RECORD FASHION, THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN DECADES.
WHERE IS THE APOLOGY?” The Independent has reached out to The New York Times for comment. Contrary to Trump’s allegation, the newspaper has a long history of rigorous fact-checking and has been at pains to explain its methods to readers in the interests of transparency. It is not clear what specifically rattled Trump on Monday night.
However, the rant came shortly after the publication of a new NYT report, from Haberman and her colleague Jonathan Swan, which revealed Trump’s aide Natalie Harp had sent him a series of passionate le.
