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Donald Trump warned a New York magazine reporter working on a piece about the president's health that he would sue the outlet if the piece cast him in a negative light, in yet another effort to dictate coverage about himself.
“I hate to waste a lot of time on this, but if you’re going to write a bad story about my health, I’m going to sue the ass off of New York Magazine. There will be a time when you can write that story, maybe in two years, three years, five years — five years, no one is going to care, I guess," Trump told the outlet's Washington correspondent, Ben Terris, in a December interview.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and two doctors — Captain Sean Barbabella, his lead physician, and Colonel James Jones, a physician’s assistant — were present for the sitdown.
