US President Donald Trump has called for the Senate Intelligence Committee to switch its focus from Russia’s alleged meddling in America’s 2016 presidential election to probing “fake news” media in the US.
In a series of tweets on Thursday, Trump made the call for an investigation into “fake news networks” one day after naming US news organizations NBC and CNN as “dishonest.”
“Why Isn’t the Senate Intel Committee looking into the Fake News Networks in OUR country to see why so much of our news is just made up-FAKE!”, he wrote on Twitter.
“NBC news is #FakeNews and more dishonest than even CNN,” Trump wrote. “They are a disgrace to good reporting. No wonder their news ratings are way down!”
On Wednesday NBC reported that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a “moron” during a Pentagon meeting in July and was on the verge of resigning, citing several senior White House officials.
Following the…