Donald Trump Lashes Out at Media While Detailing Gifts to Veterans

A defensive Donald J. Trump angrily listed more than two dozen veterans groups that he said had received $5.6 million thanks to his fundraising and personal largess during a contentious news conference Tuesday in which he repeatedly railed against reporters who questioned him.

Criticizing the news media at length, Trump demanded that journalists credit him for his act of charity and took umbrage at their scrutiny of his boasts and promises.

In a heated, 40-minute appearance in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan, Trump dismissed a CNN reporter as "a real beauty" and an ABC reporter as "a sleaze."