Trump attacks Drudge Report for promoting ‘fake news’ report on ‘mini-stroke’

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President Trump took aim at historically conservative news aggregate giant Drudge Report, saying the site opposed his bid for president in 2016.

On Tuesday, the president blasted the site for linking to an article focusing on his denial that he took an emergency visit to Walter Reed Medical Center in 2019 after suffering a series of “mini-strokes,” a response to claims written in a book by New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt. However, Schmidt did not specifically write that the president suffered “mini-strokes.”

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