{"id":46055,"date":"2016-08-14T08:01:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=46055"},"modified":"2016-08-14T08:01:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:01:36","slug":"trump-threatens-to-pull-ny-times-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=46055","title":{"rendered":"Trump Threatens to Pull NY Times Credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wV4FW6cKm08\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nBy Todd Beamon<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump Saturday threatened to revoke the credentials of The New York Times after the newspaper published a report detailing the &#8220;failing&#8221; effort by Republican Party operatives to &#8220;save Mr. Trump from himself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The newspaper&#8217;s going to hell,&#8221; Trump told a rally at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn. &#8220;They&#8217;ve got a couple of reporters in that newspaper who are so bad \u2014 I mean lack of talent. But it&#8217;s going to hell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, I think maybe what we&#8217;ll do, maybe we&#8217;ll start thinking about taking their press credentials away from them,&#8221; the Republican nominee added, drawing cheers from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe we&#8217;ll do that. I think so. I think so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When they write dishonest stories, we should be a little bit tough, don&#8217;t we agree?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Many in the audience yelled &#8220;yeah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/Rove-Trump-basics-campaign\/2016\/08\/13\/id\/743477\/#ixzz4HGajhIUw\">The Times report<\/a><\/strong>, by Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman, detailed efforts by staffers to keep Trump on script, focus more on policy and tone down his inflammatory rhetoric and combative style.<\/p>\n<p>It was based on interviews with 20 Republicans, many of whom insisted on anonymity to avoid clashing with him,&#8221; according to the Times.<\/p>\n<p>The article also described a meeting Trump had with GOP political consultant Karl Rove and casino magnate Steve Wynn during primaries \u2014 from which Rove emerged &#8220;stunned&#8221; that the nominee knew little about campaign basics.<\/p>\n<p>Trump slammed the Times for using anonymous sources, saying &#8220;I don\u2019t think they have any names.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an overall attack on the press, Trump that it was his biggest competitor in this campaign, not Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not running against crooked Hillary,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I\u2019m running against the crooked media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s what I\u2019m running against, I\u2019m not running against crooked Hillary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump has revoked the press credentials of several media outlets, including Politico, The Washington Post and The Huffington Post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m no fan of the Washington Post, although they have been much nicer lately, I must say,&#8221; Trump said Saturday. &#8220;Maybe I&#8217;ll let them back in. they\u2019ve been much better.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe also ripped CNN for its coverage of him saying that President Barack Obama was the &#8220;founder&#8221; of the Islamic State \u2014 a remark he later said was sarcastic, &#8220;but not that sarcastic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CNN is so disgusting,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Their ratings are going down big league.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know why? Because I refuse to be interviewed. And I get high ratings, what can I say?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These people are so dishonest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He later praised an article from The New York Post, which detailed his contributions as a developer to New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Trump slammed the Times report on Twitter:The article was also attacked by conservative talk radio host and writer Erick Erickson:<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/Trump-New-York-Times-creditentials\/2016\/08\/13\/id\/743485\/#ixzz4HJ6GSOVY\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/Trump-New-York-Times-creditentials\/2016\/08\/13\/id\/743485\/#ixzz4HJ6GSOVY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}