After 167 days without a press conference, Donald Trump’s performance in Trump Tower didn’t disappoint. He abused journalists, denounced a string of media organisations and compared his own intelligence services with those of Nazi Germany.
Some of us wondered whether the latest scandal – allegations that Russian intelligence operatives had gathered compromising material or Kompromat on the President-elect – would force Trump to tread carefully, or even cancel his scheduled appointment with the assembled press corps at Trump Tower.
Of course that’s not his style. He was in full combat mode as he answered questions about what he gets up to in Moscow hotel rooms, lambasting the media that published the unverified document and throwing in a gag – ‘Does anyone really believe that story? I’m also very much of a germaphobe, by the way. Believe me.’
He rounded on his own intelligence agencies.
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