Trump slams New York Times 'hit piece,' notably doesn't dispute its accuracy

Donald Trump.
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President Trump is firing back for the first time after The New York Times published a massive investigation into his father's shady business dealings on Tuesday.

In a Wednesday morning tweet, Trump brought back his favorite "failing" descriptor to lambast the Times for "doing a very old, boring, and often told hit piece on me." Trump notably didn't deny the accuracy of the Times story, which details how his father's "dubious tax schemes" allowed him to leave at least $1 billion to his children. Instead, Trump simply said this is one of the Times' "bad" stories about him.

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In its Tuesday article, the Times analyzed financial records and tax documents to conclude that Trump received at least $413 million from his father's real estate empire. Trump's lawyer denied all the Times' findings as "100 percent false and highly defamatory." But Trump himself stuck to this one-off response, before returning to his usual tweets about how the "stock market just reached an all-time high" just a few minutes later.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.