Donald Trump speaks to reporters on Air Force One. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
President Donald Trump fired off two very angry Truth Social posts aimed at The New York Times, well after midnight and into early Wednesday morning.
The bigger target was a Times report on his former personal lawyer, Alina Habba Mildon, and a harassment settlement at his Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
According to a new complaint by New Jersey’s Office of Attorney Ethics, Habba Mildon befriended a 21-year-old club waitress who had accused a manager of sexual harassment. She then allegedly talked the young woman into dropping her lawyer and taking a $15,000 settlement on terms favorable to the club, where she was a member. Habba Mildon’s office also prepared a nondisclosure agreement, despite a New Jersey law banning NDAs in workplace harassment cases. She now faces discipline that could cost her her law license.
Trump insisted he had nothing to do with it despite his ownership of the club.
“The failing New York Times wrote about the ‘settling of a sexual harassment suit brought years ago by a waitress at President Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J,’” he posted at 1:47 a.m. “What they fail to say is that it did not involve President Trump, a rather important omission. FAKE NEWS!!!”
About 20 minutes earlier, he had gone after another Times piece cataloging his chaotic behavior since the midterms. He disputed its claim that he called into a C-SPAN show “APPARENTLY WITHOUT NOTICE.”
“It was a fully scheduled call, as a favor to C-Span, set up through White House Communications,” Trump wrote. “The Times knew this, but lied, in order to demean - But this is the least of their lies!”
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