NY Times: Trump berating reporter part of ‘pattern of answering fair questions with inaccurate attacks’

The New York Times is pushing back on criticism from President Trump after he attacked a reporter who pressed him about a social media post that threatened Iran ahead of a deadline to make a ceasefire deal with the U.S.

In his Sunday morning post, Trump wrote, “open the f—– Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”

During a briefing with reporters a day later, New York Times journalist Zolan Kanno-Youngs asked Trump if such an attack on Iran’s infrastructure would violate the Geneva Conventions. The president attacked the reporter, calling him “fake” and saying the Times was “failing.”

“President Trump’s derisive comments to a New York Times reporter today are the latest example in his pattern of answering........

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