A meeting between President-elect Donald Trump and The New York Times is back on Tuesday after Mr. Trump ranted at the Times on Twitter and canceled a meeting with the newspaper’s executives, reporters and columnists earlier Tuesday.
“Mr. Trump’s staff has told us that the President Elect’s meeting with The Times is on again,” Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy 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.”
Trump tweeted that he’s looking forward to the meeting.
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks also confirmed the meeting was back on, telling pool reporters that it “is taking place as planned.”
On Twitter early Tuesday morning, Mr. Trump claimed that the Times had changed the terms and conditions of the meeting, which was reportedly supposed to be on the record.
The newspaper, however, didn’t know the meeting was canceled until the president-elect posted his tweet and it said it hadn’t change the ground rules.
“We were unaware that the meeting was cancelled until we saw the President Elect’s tweet this morning,” said Eileen Murphy, senior vice president of communications at the Times. “We did not change the ground rules at all and made no attempt to. They tried to yesterday - asking for only a private meeting and no on-the-record segment, which we refused to agree to. In the end, we concluded with them that we would go back to the original plan of a small off the record session and a larger on the record session with reporters and columnists.”
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