President Donald Trump blasted recent reports by The Washington Post and The New York Times that raised questions about his private meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and revealed an FBI investigation into his behavior after he fired FBI Director James Comey.
The Washington Post reported that Trump had gone to “extraordinary lengths” to conceal the specifics of his conversations with Putin.
When asked by Pirro about the story, Trump said he and Putin had “a great conversation.”
“I’m not keeping anything under wraps, I couldn’t care less. I mean, it’s so ridiculous. These people make it up,” Trump said.
He compared his conversations with Putin to what “every president does — you sit with the president of various countries.”
On Friday, the New York Times published a story about an FBI probe into Trump’s behavior following his firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
Sanders called the report “absurd.”
“James Comey was fired because he’s a disgraced partisan hack, and his Deputy Andrew McCabe, who was in charge at the time, is a known liar fired by the FBI,” Sanders said.
Asked by Pirro if he’d ever worked on behalf of Russia, Trump did not directly answer the question. Instead, he said, “I think it’s the most insulting thing I’ve ever been asked. I think it’s the most insulting article I’ve ever had written. And if you read the article, you’d see that they found absolutely nothing.”
Trump began responding to the New York Times report with an angry stream of tweets aimed at the FBI on Saturday.
“Wow, just learned in the Failing New York Times that the corrupt former leaders of the FBI, almost all fired or forced to leave the agency for some very bad reasons, opened up an investigation on me, for no reason & with no proof, after I fired Lyin’ James Comey, a total sleaze!”
Comey appeared to respond to Trump’s tweet, writing on Twitter:
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. — FDR”
During a phone interview on “Justice with Judge Jeanine,” Trump told Fox News host Jeanine Pirro on Saturday evening that the stories were “all nonsense.”