The president denied the paper’s report about nightmarish conditions at a Clint, Texas, facility.
The New York Times is hitting back at President Donald Trump after he accused the paper of fabricating a story about nightmarish conditions inside a Clint, Texas, migrant detention center.
On Sunday, Trump tweeted that the Times had written “phony and exaggerated accounts,” adding that “people should not be entering our Country illegally, only for us to then have to care for them.”
In response, the publication’s communications department told the president it stood by its reporting.
“We are confident in the accuracy of our reporting on the U.S. Border Patrol’s detention centers,” it said.
View the complete July 7 article by Amy Russo on the Huffington Post website here.