Big turnout for the president-elect’s visit to The New York Times mothership. His arrival’s expected within minutes. pic.twitter.com\/Qa2ku67ycx<\/a><\/p>\n — Ashley Southall (@AshleyAtTimes) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Trump was originally scheduled to meet with the Times earlier in the day. However, after reports of Trump flying off the handle at a meeting with network news anchors and execs leaked, and after incoming WH Chief of Staff lobbied to cancel the meeting with the Times, Trump took to Twitter to accuse the Grey Lady of changing the terms of their meeting at the last minute–something the NYT ardently denies.<\/p>\n I cancelled today’s meeting with the failing @nytimes<\/a> when the terms and conditions of the meeting were changed at the last moment. Not nice<\/p>\n — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Shortly thereafter, the meeting was rescheduled, as the NYT notes:<\/a><\/p>\n “Mr. Trump’s staff has told us that the president-elect’s meeting with The Times is on again,’’ the paper said in a statement. “He will meet with our publisher off the record and that session will be followed by an on-the-record meeting with our journalists and editorial columnists.’’<\/p>\n Here is a list of those who were in attendance at the meeting.<\/p>\n The attendees at today’s meeting between the President-elect and The New York Times. pic.twitter.com\/8kPqRp3AVE<\/a><\/p>\n — Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Below, read updates from the meeting via journalists at the Times.<\/p>\n On white supremacists supporting him:<\/p>\n Trump on alt-right supporters: “It’s not a group I want to energize. And if they are energized I want to look into it and find out why.”<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Trump gets asked again about the alt-right conference. ‘Boy you are really into” this issue, Trump replies. Then disavows again.<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Will the President-elect condemn Richard Spencer’s alt-right gathering? “I condemn them. I disavow, and I condemn,” says Trump.<\/p>\n — Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n On the electoral college:<\/p>\n “We had a great victory,” Trump says. “I’ll see every once in awhile someone says, ‘Well, the popular vote.'”<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Adds: “Until now.” Also says Electoral College “gets you out to” see states you wouldn’t otherwise.<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Without EC “You wouldn’t leave New York,” Trump says.<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n On prosecuting Hillary Clinton for alleged crimes having either to do with her use of a private email server or alleged wrongdoing at the Clinton Foundation:<\/p>\n Trump is pressed if he has definitively ruled out prosecuting Hillary Clinton. “It’s just not something that I feel very strongly about.”<\/p>\n — Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n “I don’t want to hurt the Clintons, I really don’t. She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways.”<\/p>\n — Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Says he wants to move on and move forward. “I’m not looking to go back and go through this,” Trump says.<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Trump on disappointing his supporters re Clinton: “I don’t think they will be disappointed…” 1\/2<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n 2\/2 “I think I will explain it that we in many ways will save our country.”<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n “I think it would be very very divisive for the country,” Trump says about prosecuting the Clintons.<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n On climate change:<\/p>\n Tom Friedman asks if Trump will withdraw from climate change accords. Trump: “I’m looking at it very closely. I have an open mind to it.”<\/p>\n — Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Does Trump think human activity is linked to climate change? “I think there is some connectivity. Some, something. It depends on how much.”<\/p>\n — Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n On climate change, Trump says he is also thinking about “how much it will cost our companies” & the effect on American competitiveness.<\/p>\n — Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n On white supremacist Steve Bannon:<\/p>\n On Bannon:”If I thought he was a racist or alt-right or any of the things, the terms we could use, I wouldn’t even think about hiring him.”<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Trump on Bannon: “I think it’s very hard on him. I think he’s having a hard time with it. Because it’s not him.”<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Trump: “Breitbart is just a publication.”<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Trump is asked about concerns from minority groups about Breitbart News’s coverage under Steve Bannon. His reply: pic.twitter.com\/FBqCGwQpBr<\/a><\/p>\n — Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n “A lot of people are coming to his defense right now,” Trump says of Bannon. Reince voices support too at conference table.<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n On his business and conflicts of interest now that he will become president:<\/p>\n Trump on his businesses\/conflict q’s: “The law’s totally on my side, the president can’t have a conflict of interest.”<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n “My company’s so unimportant to me relative to what I’m doing.” Trump.<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Trump acknowledges the DC hotel he owns is “probably a more valuable asset than it was before.” Says the brand is “hotter.”<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n “I don’t care about anything having anything to do” with something other than the U.S., Trump says. “I don’t want to influence anything.”<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n “In theory I could run my business perfectly and then run the country perfectly. There’s never been a case like this,”he says of his tangles<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n “I’d assumed that you’d have to set up some type of trust or whatever and you don’t,” Trump says.But he adds “I would like to do something.”<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n What about selling your company? “That’s a really hard thing to do, because I have real estate.”<\/p>\n — Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Conflicts of interest? Trump says: “If it were up to some people, I would never, ever see my daughter Ivanka again.”<\/p>\n — Mike Grynbaum (@grynbaum) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n On meeting President Obama:<\/p>\n “I had a great meeting with President Obama,” Trump says, says he never met him before. “I really liked him a lot.”<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n “He said very nice things after the meeting and I saidvery nice things about him,” Trump says of Obama.Says he didn’t know if he’d like him.<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n “I think he’s looking to do absolutely the right thing for the country in terms of transition,” Trump says of Obama.<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n ‘He did tell me what he thought were the biggest problems, in particular one problem,” Trump says. Won’t say what that was.<\/p>\n — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) November 22, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post LIVE Updates From the NYT’s Meeting with President-Elect Donald Trump – READ<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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