Amid global coverage of the growing scandal over a meeting involving the younger Mr Trump, his father’s campaign manager Paul Manafort and son-in-law Jared Kushner, the President added: “Remember, when you hear the words “sources say” from the Fake Media, often times those sources are made up and do not exist.”
His early morning tweets followed reports the saga, seeing Mr Trump’s son bypass lawyers to release pages of explosive emails on Twitter, has engulfed the embattled Trump administration in fresh chaos.
The President – who is due to travel to France to mark Bastille Day with Emmanuel Macron later – has not appeared in public since returning from the G20 summit in Germany on Saturday.
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