“Never Seen More Dishonest Media Than The Political Media,” Trump Lashes Out At Press

Lashing out at critics and denying Russia Connections, President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he inherited a "mess" and reiterated that media reports on his advisors constant contact with Russia were "fake news."

Trump said that there is a lot of distortion by the media and his administration isn’t going to let it happen. "I'm here again, to take my message straight to the people. As you know, our administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy. To be honest, I inherited a mess. It's a mess. At home and abroad, a mess,” CNN quoted Trump as saying during his press conference.

Coming down heavily on media, Trump said that he has never seen more dishonest media than the political media. "I have never seen more dishonest media, frankly than the political media," he said. “The press has become so dishonest that if we don’t talk about, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people,” Trump said, “the press honestly is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control,” he added.

Reacting on the leaks which led to the resignation of his national security adviser Michael Flynn, Trump said that the leaks were real but the news was fake. "The leaks are real. The leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake," he said. Trump said he has nothing to do with Russia and he does not know anyone from his campaign that was in contact with Russia. He also accused holdovers from the Obama administration of leaking out information to attack his administration. "I own nothing in Russia, I have no loans in Russia, I don't have any deals in Russia," Trump said."Russia is fake news," Trump said.

With inputs from ANI.