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Trump taunts media to its face

31 May 2016 21:27 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. The real estate mogul calls one reporter a 'sleaze' and another as a 'real beauty' as he defends his veterans donations at Trump Tower, APA reports quoting US media.

Donald Trump, whose entire campaign can seem like an experiment in free media, was simply trying to keep a low profile when he held an impromptu, televised fundraiser for veterans groups back in January in lieu of attending a GOP primary debate.

At least that’s the story the presumptive Republican nominee was spinning to dozens of reporters gathered in the lobby of Trump Tower Tuesday morning—and to millions more watching the cable networks’ live blanket coverage of the entire 40-minute press conference—as he chastised the media for failing to give him his due, blasting one reporter as a “sleaze” and another as “a real beauty."
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Stepping to the podium with veterans standing behind him, Trump at first failed to mention the controversy of his campaign’s charitable disbursements to dozens of veterans groups—ostensibly, the reason he’d called the press conference in the first place. In his opening remarks, he wished LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers good luck in the NBA finals and touted the latest batch of promising poll numbers. He did not turn to the subject at hand until a reporter asked him about it.

Trump, who’d stated at the January fundraiser that his campaign had raised more than $6 million for veterans groups that night, told reporters that his campaign has now sent $5.6 million to a number of veterans groups, which he rattled off one by one in between broadsides at a media audacious enough to ask for corroboration.