In a tweet Thursday morning, Trump slammed the "so-called experts on Trump" at The New York Times, after the paper published a report Wednesday saying that Chinese spies regularly listen in on phone calls the president makes on his personal cellphone, which he has been warned not to use. Trump says this is inaccurate, claiming he only makes calls on government phones and has just one government cellphone that he rarely uses.
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