Washington — US President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on the media early on Sunday, hours after news that his campaign paid $50,000 in late June to the law firm later revealed to be representing Donald Trump Jr. in the matter of a meeting during 2016 with a Russian lawyer to seek damaging information on Hillary Clinton. "With all of its phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting, #Fake News is DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country," Trump told his almost 40-million Twitter followers. Separately, a new ABC-Washington Post poll released on Sunday showed Trump’s approval rating at the six-month mark of his term at 36%, down six points from a survey taken after his first 100 days. The previous president closest to that level after six months into his term was Gerald Ford, at 39%, in February 1975. About 63% of those polled said it was inappropriate for Trump’s son, son-in-law Jared Kushner and campaign manager Paul Manafort to have met with a Russian lawyer of...
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