Trump on disputed BuzzFeed report: ‘A very sad day for journalism’

Published January 19, 2019 3:26am ET



President Trump relished special counsel Robert Mueller’s pushback of a BuzzFeed News report that claimed the president had ordered his former attorney to lie to Congress.

Trump called it “a very sad day for journalism,” reminding his Twitter followers that the news outlet was also responsible for publishing an unverified dossier that contained salacious details about the president and his alleged links to Russia.

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