TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump lashed out at a journalist who read out excerpts from a purported manifesto written by the suspect in Saturday night’s security scare at a media dinner while angrily asserting that he is not a rapist or a pedophile as the assailant's screed suggested.
In an interview with CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Norah O’Donnell, Trump bristled when confronted with passages from the alleged attacker’s writings that accused him of serious crimes. The president cut her off, calling her “a disgrace” and denouncing the decision to air such claims, even in the context of reporting on the suspect’s motives.
