{"id":79703,"date":"2025-12-23T23:57:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/79703\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T23:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T23:57:20","slug":"trump-slams-new-york-times-as-serious-threat-to-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/79703\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams New York Times as &#8216;serious threat to national security&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump slammed the New York Times as \u201ca serious threat to the national security of our nation\u201d in a late-night Truth Social post.<\/p>\n<p>While he didn\u2019t provide context for the statement, his post came days after the newspaper\u00a0published an in-depth\u00a0report\u00a0about his relationship with the late sex offender\u00a0and financier Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Failing New York Times, and their lies and purposeful misrepresentations, is a serious threat to the National Security of our Nation,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115767241940653010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Trump\u00a0wrote<\/a> just after midnight Monday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir Radical Left, Unhinged Behavior, writing FAKE Articles and Opinions in a never ending way, must be dealt with and stopped. THEY ARE A TRUE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE! Thank you for you [sic] attention to this matter. PRESIDENT DJT.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38003031\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/president-donald-trump-speaks-mar-117764541.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump speaking with a blurred golden emblem in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-38003031\"  \/>President Trump called out the New York Times as a \u201cthreat to national security\u201d on Truth Social late Monday. AP<\/p>\n<p>The comments marked the latest salvo in Trump\u2019s long-running criticism of the Times, which has published numerous critical articles and polemics about the president.<\/p>\n<p>While the outlet\u2019s latest investigation found no evidence implicating Trump in Epstein\u2019s sex-trafficking crimes, the article depicted close social ties between the men.<\/p>\n<p>The story came as the Justice Department released <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/19\/us-news\/doj-to-release-several-hundred-thousand-jeffrey-epstein-files-today\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another batch of files <\/a>on Tuesday related to the case against the notorious pedophile.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.9922179;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38003050\" width=\"1024\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/president-donald-trump-slams-new-117790223.jpg\" alt=\"A social media post by Donald J. Trump calling the New York Times a &quot;serious threat to the National Security of our Nation.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-38003050\"  \/> Truth Social\/@realDonaldTrump<\/p>\n<p>In the latest trove, a Jan. 8, 2020, email revealed that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/23\/us-news\/trump-flew-on-epsteins-private-jet-at-least-eight-times-between-1993-and-1996-files\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump traveled on Epstein\u2019s private jet at least eight times <\/a>during the mid-1990s, according to flight records reviewed by Manhattan federal prosecutors ahead of the arrest of Epstein\u2019s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.<\/p>\n<p>The email provided no evidence that Trump was aware of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/20\/us-news\/sick-new-details-about-jeffrey-epsteins-crimes-revealed-after-doj-releases-files-from-unsealed-grand-jury-materials\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Epstein\u2019s sex crimes<\/a>\u00a0against women and girls as young as 14, nor did it indicate wrongdoing on the part of the president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump slammed the New York Times as \u201ca serious threat to the national security of our nation\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,6769,1208,9,11,10,980,23328],"class_list":{"0":"post-79703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-jeffrey-epstein","10":"tag-media","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-times","15":"tag-newspapers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}