The Republican Party’s presidential nominee is back to railing against The New York Times.
Donald Trump attacked one of The Times’ columnists, Maureen Dowd, on Saturday, after she riffed on Trump’s raucous White House campaign.
During a CNN interview, Dowd said, “I picture Kellyanne Conway like a lion-tamer trying to keep Donald Trump on his stool.”
Conway is Trump’s campaign manager and largely credited with attempting to steer the brash real-estate mogul toward a more disciplined message.
Trump’s bid for the Oval Office has been one of the rockiest and most controversial campaigns in modern history. Dowd said that she expressed concern about that with the GOP nominee directly: “For instance, I told him that it was wrong that there was violence being incited at his rallies,” Dowd said, adding that it was also wrong that reporters were being “roughed up.”
"He paused ... but then he disagreed and said he thought the violence added a frisson of excitement," Dowd added.
Trump fired off a number of tweets slamming Dowd after that interview:
Wacky @NYTimesDowd, who hardly knows me, makes up things that I never said for her boring interviews and column. A neurotic dope!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 17, 2016
Crazy Maureen Dowd, the wacky columnist for the failing @nytimes, pretends she knows me well--wrong!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 17, 2016
The failing @nytimes has gone nuts that Crooked Hillary is doing so badly. They are willing to say anything, has become a laughingstock rag!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 17, 2016
Trump then suggested that The New York Times could be sued:
My lawyers want to sue the failing @nytimes so badly for irresponsible intent. I said no (for now), but they are watching. Really disgusting
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 17, 2016
Watch Maureen Dowd's CNN interview here: