Donald Trump Looks to Improve His Relationship With the New York Times

The Republican billionaire businessman has called climate change a “hoax” perpetrated by China and threatened to pull out of the agreement on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

Trump acknowledged that maybe, perhaps, there was a little bit of a connection between global climate change and human activity during his very dramatic, almost canceled visit to The New York Times’s office on Tuesday afternoon.

During the New York Times interview Trump said President Obama is “looking to do absolutely the right thing for the country in terms of transition”.

Mr Trump, who takes office on January 20, also said he was thinking about climate change and American competitiveness and “how much it will cost our companies”, the reporter said, without elaborating.

“If it were up to some people, I would never, ever see my daughter Ivanka again”, Trump told editors and reporters of The New York Times when asked about potential conflicts of interest in his administration, reports Politico.

The newspaper reports its editorial staff members were prepared to speak with Trump mostly on-the-record, unlike the meeting he held Monday with television news outlets. Conway said he had moved on from the campaign.

The Times said that before the give-and-take on issues, the president-elect complained about some of the newspaper’s coverage of him, saying “I think I’ve been treated very rough”. He says he doesn’t want “to hurt the Clintons”, adding that he doesn’t think his supporters will be disappointed once he explains that “we, in many ways, will save our country”.

If Trump’s appointees do not follow through on his pledge to investigate Clinton for what he claimed were criminal violations, “it would be a betrayal of his promise to the American people to “drain the swamp” of out-of-control corruption in Washington”, said the group Judicial Watch.

The Clinton Foundation charity has also been scrutinized for donations it received while she led the State Department.

Being made president-elect hasn’t tempered Donald Trump’s rage against the media.

“I’d assumed that you’d have to set up some type of trust or whatever and you don’t”, Trump told The Times.

Trump is pressed if he has definitively ruled out prosecuting Hillary Clinton. “I think we’d do as well or better”.

Now, words are one thing – actions are another.

To anyone with even a faint awareness of the relationship between Trump and the New York Times, the president-elect’s behavior is unsurprising.

In a separate tweet minutes later, Trump left open the possibility of a meeting in the future.

Trump also addressed concerns about his top adviser, Steve Bannon, the former CEO of Breitbart – a conservative news website that is said to be a platform for the alt-right.

And then, as quickly as it was canceled, Trump decided that the meeting was back on.

Kellyanne Conway said on MSNBC on Tuesday that Trump is setting a tone for congressional Republicans by refraining from calling for more investigations.

When asked if he spoke to British politician Nigel Farage about opposing offshoring wind farms that he anxious would reduce the value of his Scottish golf courses, Trump said that he “might have brought it up”.