UNITED STATES: Trump attacks media for coverage of son’s Russia meeting

President Donald Trump lashed out at the U.S. media Sunday, accusing it of “distorting democracy” in its reports on his eldest son’s meeting last year with a Russian lawyer he thought would hand him incriminating information about Democrat Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 election. In a string of Twitter comments from his golf resort […]

President Donald Trump lashed out at the U.S. media Sunday, accusing it of “distorting democracy” in its reports on his eldest son’s meeting last year with a Russian lawyer he thought would hand him incriminating information about Democrat Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 election.

In a string of Twitter comments from his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump defended Donald Trump Jr., who met with Natalia Veselnitskaya in June 2016.

“With all of its phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting, #Fake News is DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country!” Trump claimed.

The White House Correspondents Association rejected Trump’s attack, saying, “A free and independent press actually is critical to democracy.”