Tapper rips Trump’s ‘deranged’ attacks on CNN, New York Times Iran reporting
Key takeaways
- Reporting these facts isn t treason, and it s deranged for any president to say such a thing and potentially dangerous for the reporters he s accusing of treason, Tapper said during a segment on The Lead.
- Trump scolded New York Times (NYT) reporter David Sanger earlier Friday as the longtime correspondent was pressing him about the U.S. military s 38-day bombing campaign inside Iran.
- Sanger wrote in a NYT report earlier this month that the U.S. s core objectives in the war clearly have not been achieved, despite the Trump administration s repeated assertions that they had.
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Reporting these facts isn t treason, and it s deranged for any president to say such a thing and potentially dangerous for the reporters he s accusing of treason, Tapper said during a segment on The Lead.
Trump scolded New York Times (NYT) reporter David Sanger earlier Friday as the longtime correspondent was pressing him about the U.S. military s 38-day bombing campaign inside Iran.
Sanger wrote in a NYT report earlier this month that the U.S. s core objectives in the war clearly have not been achieved, despite the Trump administration s repeated assertions that they had. He noted that Tehran s nuclear stockpile remained untouched, and the sides appeared no closer to a deal on constraining the program.