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President Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on the media, 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.
Trump slams record low approval poll
According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll, President Trump received the lowest six-month approval rating of any president dating back 70 years.
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 per cent, 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 per cent, in February 1975.
About 63 per cent 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 offering information on Clinton. Six in 10 also think Russia tried to influence the campaign, and among those who say so, 67 per cent think Trump aides helped, similar to results in April.
Trump thanked former campaign adviser Michael Caputo in a tweet "for saying so powerfully that there was no Russian collusion in our winning campaign." Caputo testified to the House Intelligence Committee on Friday as part of an investigation into Russian meddling in the USÂ election.
The president also defended his son, tweeting that "Hillary Clinton can illegally get the questions to the Debate & delete 33,000 emails but my son Don is being scorned by the Fake News Media?"
The president has been at at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey, since Friday evening and planned to spend part of Sunday watching the US Women's Open golf tournament for a third day before returning to Washington.
The ABC poll was conducted by landline and mobile phone between July 10 and 13, in English and Spanish, among a random sample of 1001 adults. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 per cent.