Trump rips New York Times over coverage, asks for apology

President-elect Trump attacked The New York Times early Tuesday, asking the outlet to apologize for its coverage of him, which he called "so wrong."

"Will the failing New York Times apologize to its readers for getting years of “Trump” coverage so wrong," Trump wrote Tuesday morning on Truth Social. "They write such phony 'junk,' knowing full well how incorrect it is, only meaning to demean."

He specifically called out national political correspondent Maggie Haberman as a "a third rate writer and fourth rate intellect, writes story after story, always terrible, and yet I almost never speak to her."

The president-elect's post came just hours after the Times published a story outlining an internal investigation his transition team had conducted around top Trump aide Boris Epshteyn, alleging he solicited payment from candidates for top Cabinet posts to curry favor with Trump.

Epshteyn denied the allegations.

Haberman, whose byline was on the Times story Monday, is known for her reporting on Trump going back to his days as a real estate mogul in New York.

"They do no fact checking, because facts don’t matter to them," Trump wrote of the Times. "I don’t believe I’ve had a legitimately good story in the NYT for years, AND YET I WON, IN RECORD FASHION, THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN DECADES. WHERE IS THE APOLOGY?"