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Donald Trump attacks media on turnout and intelligence rift

Trump has questioned the conclusion that Russia meddled in the US election on his behalf

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Julie Hirschfeld Davis & Matthew Rosenberg | NYT
President Trump used his first full day in office on Saturday to unleash a remarkably bitter attack on the news media, falsely accusing journalists of both inventing a rift between him and intelligence agencies and deliberately understating the size of his inauguration crowd.

In a visit to the Central Intelligence Agency intended to showcase his support for the intelligence community, Trump ignored his own repeated public statements criticising the intelligence community, a group he compared to Nazis just over a week ago.

He also called journalists "among the most dishonest human beings on earth," and he said that up to 1.5 million