Trump blasts ‘lame’ New York Times ‘hit piece’

Donald Trump early Sunday blasted a report in The New York Times about how he has treated women in private.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee called it a “lame hit piece” on Twitter, adding that he provided “many names” of women he helped that were not used in the article.

Everyone is laughing at the @nytimes for the lame hit piece they did on me and women.I gave them many names of women I helped-refused to use

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 15, 2016

One of the reporters later called that tweet “factually inaccurate,” saying women suggested by Trump’s office were interviewed.

A factually inaccurate tweet: we did interview and quote women his office suggested in the story: https://t.co/Jfu05iK5Et

— Michael Barbaro (@mikiebarb) May 15, 2016

{mosads}The Times said it interviewed dozens of women who encountered the billionaire real estate mogul, revealing a “complex, at times contradictory portrait.”

The newspaper’s report said Trump both nurtured women’s careers and mocked their appearance.

Trump also said the “failing” newspaper “found nothing” and called on the “dishonest” media to do a “real story” on the “Clintons and media.”

The failing @nytimes wrote yet another hit piece on me. All are impressed with how nicely I have treated women, they found nothing. A joke!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 15, 2016

Why doesn’t the failing @nytimes write the real story on the Clintons and women? The media is TOTALLY dishonest!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 15, 2016

— This report was updated at 12:24 p.m.