Brian Flood

President Donald Trump took to Twitter to defend former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. The President tweeted, "Mike Flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witch hunt (excuse for big election loss), by media & Dems, of historic proportion!"

It was reported that Flynn is willing to be interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Congress regarding any possible ties between President Trump and Russia in exchange for immunity from prosecution. “General Flynn certainly has a story to tell, and he very much wants to tell it, should the circumstances permit,” Flynn’s lawyer Robert Kelner said in a statement.

Newspapers with a history of endorsing Republican presidential candidates are losing subscribers and even receiving death threats after endorsing Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. The Arizona Republic’s editorial board has received death threats since publishing its Clinton endorsement earlier in the week of Sept 26. It was the first time the paper endorsed a Democrat in a general election since it launched in 1890.

Meanwhile, Cincinnati Enquirer editor Peter Bhatia said his paper has lost “hundreds” of subscriptions since its editorial board broke a nearly century-long habit of backing the Republican in the presidential contest. “There has been a substantial amount of blowback, that’s for sure,” Bhatia told TheWrap. “The people who are reacting are predominantly unhappy with the endorsement.” The Enquirer’s Clinton endorsement has racked up nearly 1,000 comments and Bhatia has personally responded to at least 150 e-mails. He said the editorial board expected a reaction but never imagined how venomous some of the feedback has been.

Donald Trump stepped up his attack on the media Aug 14 with a series of tweets accusing the press of protecting Hillary Clinton, writing false stories about him, and even bias coverage of this rallies.

“I am not only fighting Crooked Hillary, I am fighting the dishonest and corrupt media and her government protection process,” Trump wrote. “People get it!” He followed up shortly after with, “It is not ‘freedom of the press’ when newspapers and others are allowed to say and write whatever they want even if it is completely false!” Trump repeatedly called the New York Times “failing” during the series of tweets, and wasn’t shy about his opinion that the media is covering for Clinton. He sent eight anti-media tweets in a 24-hour period, typically slipping in a Clinton jab in addition to the assault on press.

“No matter how good I do on something, they’ll never write good,” Donald Trump says. Donald Trump appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” on Aug 1 to complain about The New York Times treating him unfairly, but the way he chose to articulate his point is being mocked by critics and across social media. “The New York Times is so unfair. I mean they write three, four articles about me a day. No matter how good I do on something, they’ll never write good,” Trump said. “I mean they don’t write good.” Trump also said he calls it the “failing New York Times,” because it “won’t be in business” for long and even called out a particular reporter by name. “They have people over there, like Maggie Haberman and others, they don’t — they don’t write good. They don’t know how to write good,” Trump said.