“Are they telling us the front page NY Times report on Inauguration day (Jan 20, 2017) was FAKE NEWS?”
IMHO this is what President Trump’s claim is all about. The media with the nyt the prime example were saying that they had information about Trump being “wiretapped” to get information of Trump’s ties to Russia.
I think Trump brought it up as part of his campaign to show that the media is full of fake news. I do believe this is the information that he received. In other words he is punking the media.
The irony here is just too much. The NY Times accused President Bush of spying on Americans in 2003 and were proven wrong. Yet, in 2016, we may have President Obama doing exactly that and the evidence for it provided by the very same NY Times. In Jan 2017, their front page said: