President Donald Trump took to Twitter early on Aug. 18 to call out The New York Times, accusing the newspaper of taking part in a “Racism Witch Hunt,” as he continued to draw attention to the leaked comments by the newspaper’s executive editor, Dean Baquet.
“The Failing New York Times, in one of the most devastating portrayals of bad journalism in history, got caught by a leaker that they are shifting from their Phony Russian Collusion Narrative (the Mueller Report & his testimony were a total disaster), to a Racism Witch Hunt,” Trump wrote while referencing Baquet’s comments he made in a staff town hall that were leaked to and published by Slate late last week.
