The following article by Philip Bump was posted on the Washing Post website May 12, 2017:
President Trump woke up angry on Friday.
By 9:30 a.m. Eastern, he’d already tweeted seven times, railing against the media and the investigation into possible ties between his campaign and Russian interests. In one tweet, he defended his deputy press secretary for having offered an explanation for the firing of FBI director James B. Comey that Trump himself later contradicted.
As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!….
