Trump tweets media ‘distorting democracy’

Bloomberg

Donald Trump made a fresh attack on the media on Sunday as a new opinion polls showed falling approval ratings in the sixth month of the president’s term, and hours after news that his campaign made a payment in late June to the law firm later revealed to be representing Donald Trump Jr.
“With all of its phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting, #Fake News is DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country,” Trump told his almost 40 million Twitter followers.
An ABC/Washington Post poll released Sunday showed Trump’s approval rating at 36%, down six points from a survey taken after his first 100 days. The previous president closest to that level after six months in office was Gerald Ford, at 39 percent, in February 1975.
Trump tweeted about the ABC poll, saying that “even though almost 40% is not bad at this time, was just about the most inaccurate poll around election time!”
About 63 percent of those polled said it was inappropriate for Trump’s son, son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign manager Paul Manafort to have met with a Russian lawyer offering information on Democrat Hillary Clinton. Six in 10 also think Russia tried to influence the campaign.
The ABC poll was conducted by landline and mobile phone July 10-13, in English and Spanish, among a random sample of 1,001 adults. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5%.
Trump thanked former campaign adviser Michael Caputo in a tweet “for saying so powerfully that there was no Russian collusion in our winning campaign.” Caputo testified to the House Intelligence Committee as part of an investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
The president also defended his son, who he “is being scorned by the Fake News Media.” Quarterly Federal Election Commission disclosures revealed a $50,000 payment made by Trump’s campaign to the law firm now working for Trump Jr.