Trump Hit With Fact-Check After Claiming New York Times Is ‘Losing A Fortune’
Posted on AllSides August 19th, 2019
From The Left
President Donald Trump was hit with a fact-check on Sunday after declaring that The New York Times was “losing a fortune” and would soon be “out of business.”
Trump tweeted that the Times ― his hometown’s paper of record and one of his favorite media targets ― had “zero credibility” and would fold “soon after I leave office.”
He went on to say that he was “fairly certain” that the paper would endorse him for the 2020 presidential election “just to keep it all going.”
Minutes later, Peter Baker, the...
