Trump Fires Back Following New York Times Article On His Treatment Of Women
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are getting ready to face off in two more states as Donald Trump is defending himself against more allegations that he doesn't treat women well.
The New York Times said it interviewed more than 50 people for its article about Trump's treatment of women in private. The editorial claims that in the past Trump has shown a pattern of "unwelcome romantic advances, unending commentary on the female form, a shrewd reliance on ambitious women and unsettling workplace conduct."
Trump fired off a series of tweets denouncing the story.
"With the coming forward today of the woman central to the failing (hashtag)nytimes hit piece on me, we have exposed the article as a fraud!" he tweeted.
The woman he is referring to is his former girlfriend Rowanne Brewer Lane.
"They did take quotes from what I said, and they put a negative connotation on it. They spun it to where it appeared negative," she told Fox News.
The New York Times reporters who wrote the piece appeared on "CBS This Morning."
"We felt very strongly that unless something could be verified in a lot of different ways, we weren't going to put it in The New York Times," Times political reporter Michael Barbaro said.
Trump was also interviewed for the piece and was quoted with his reaction to each of the claims in the same article.
Meantime, Clinton called Trump a loose cannon during a rally in Kentucky.
"When he has said he would pull us out of NATO, which is our most important military alliance, that raises not just red flags... that raises danger signals," she said.
Last week, Clinton lost the West Virginia primary by double-digits to Sanders. Sanders is in Puerto Rico ahead of its June 5 primary.
Puerto Ricans are allowed to vote in the U.S. primaries, but not in the presidential elections.
Sanders said his campaign is up against Clinton's high name recognition.
"Secretary Clinton ran in 2008. If my memory is correct she won Puerto Rico, did she not? So she has run a major campaign -- that's what we're up against. We have done well in overcoming that in the 50 states and we're starting back here," he said.
Clinton and Sanders face off Tuesday in Kentucky and Oregon. Clinton also pledged to put her husband back to work should she win the White House.
