Joe Scarborough on Monday said that The New York Times has repeatedly missed the mark while covering Donald Trump.
“Seems to be an overreach,” he said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” of the paper’s most recent report concerning the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee.
{mosads}“The Times overreaches every time on Donald Trump and these type of stories,” Scarborough added. “And they’ve done it again. They’ve overreached, and they’ve taken a negative for him and turned it into a positive that he can spin against the media.”
The New York Times on Sunday published an occasionally unflattering picture of Trump’s past behavior toward women.
The publication’s report said the businessman had both nurtured women’s careers and demeaned their appearance, creating a “complex, at times contradictory portrait.”
One of Trump’s former girlfriends on Monday said The New York Times had mischaracterized her romantic history with the billionaire.
“The New York Times told us several times that they would make sure that my story I was telling would come across,” Rowanne Brewer Lane said on Fox News’s “Fox and Friends.”
“I did not have a negative experience with Donald Trump,” the former model added. “He never offended me in any way. He was very kind, thoughtful, generous.”
Scarborough on Monday said The New York Times should strike a more neutral tone when covering Trump’s campaign.
“They have written in leads, repeatedly, whether it was the [Sen.] John McCain [R-Ariz.] story, the Megyn Kelly story, you name it, now this story, leads and articles that assume the absolute worst of Trump instead of writing it down the middle and letting readers decide,” the “Morning Joe” host said.
“I could find probably 15 times since June that The New York Times and other newspapers get a kernel of truth — the McCain story was one of them — and then they run a massive Sunday story and their coverage Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday is, ‘Is this the end of Donald Trump?’ Then on Friday there’s a poll that says, ‘No, it’s not the end of Donald Trump,’ and that consumes it over the weekend.”