President Donald Trump blamed the U.S. intelligence community for leaks that have damaged his administration and comparing it to Russia. | Getty Trump: Reports of Kremlin ties are cover for 'Clinton's losing campaign'

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that fresh coverage about alleged ties between his allies and Russia “is merely an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton's losing campaign.”

He also hurled attacks once again at the media, singling out cable networks MSNBC and CNN for “going crazy with their conspiracy theories” and what he called their “blind hatred” of him. The president also slammed another of his regular foes, the U.S. intelligence community, blaming it for leaks that have damaged his administration and comparing it to Russia.


“This Russian connection non-sense is merely an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton's losing campaign,” Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday morning. That post followed an earlier one, in which the president wrote that “the fake news media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred. @MSNBC & @CNN are unwatchable. @foxandfriends is great!”

“Information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI?). Just like Russia,” Trump added in a third post.

It was not immediately clear if Trump’s complaint about “conspiracy theories” was a reference to reporting on his alleged ties to Russia. The president is known to be a voracious consumer of morning TV news, favoring Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” where he has received almost unflinchingly positive coverage, and MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” the principal hosts of which have had years-long relationships with Trump.

Ties between Trump and the Kremlin have been given renewed scrutiny in recent days following the resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn, who stepped down this week after admitting that he had misrepresented to Vice President Mike Pence a conversation regarding sanctions that he had with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.