text: "My rallies are not covered properly by the media," Donald Trump tweeted. | Getty Trump blames 'disgusting' media: 'I would be beating Hillary by 20%' 
   
   In a series of tweets Sunday, Donald Trump launched a new tirade against the media, calling it “disgusting” and blaming it for his drop in polls. 
   
   His latest tweet storm first targeted The New York Times, which published an article Saturday about the GOP nominee’s allegedly failing campaign, but quickly expanded as an indictment of the media in general. 
   
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   “The failing @nytimes talks about anonymous sources and meetings that never happened. Their reporting is fiction. The media protects Hillary!” 
   
   In the article, colleagues who spoke on the condition of anonymity described Trump as “exhausted, frustrated and still bewildered by fine points of the political process.” 
   
   “The failing @nytimes, which never spoke to me, keeps saying that I am saying to advisers that I will change. False, I am who I am-never said,” Trump tweeted. 
   
   The GOP nominee later tweeted Sunday afternoon saying Hillary Clinton is "being protected by the media." 
   
   "She is not a talented person or politician. The dishonest media refuses to expose!" The tweet said. 
   
   He then added: "I am not only fighting Crooked Hillary, I am fighting the dishonest and corrupt media and her government protection process. People get it!" 
   
   Trump’s relationship with the news media has been shaky, at times denying reporters credentials to cover his rallies, including those from POLITICO, BuzzFeed and The Washington Post. 
   
   If the disgusting and corrupt media covered me honestly and didn't put false meaning into the words I say, I would be beating Hillary by 20% — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2016 
   
   My rallies are not covered properly by the media. They never discuss the real message and never show crowd size or enthusiasm. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2016 
   
   At a rally on Saturday, hours after The New York Times article was released, Trump said “the newspaper is going to hell.” He even suggested he would take away its reporters’ credentials. 
   
   “When they write dishonest stories we should be a little bit tough,” Trump said at his rally in Fairfield, Connecticut. 
   
   He also tweeted yesterday: “The failing @nytimes has become a newspaper of fiction. Their stories about me always quote non-existent unnamed sources. Very dishonest!” ||||| Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Sacred Heart University, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, in Fairfield, Conn. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Associated Press) 
   
   WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Campaign 2016 (all times EDT): 
   
   10:20 p.m. 
   
   Republican Donald Trump will declare an end to nation building if elected president, replacing it with what aides described as "foreign policy realism" focused on destroying the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations. 
   
   The Republican presidential nominee will deliver a speech in Ohio Monday laying out his vision. 
   
   He'll argue the country needs to work with anyone that shares that mission, regardless of other disagreements. 
   
   Trump is also expected to propose a new immigration policy under which the U.S. would stop issuing visas in cases where adequate screenings can't be performed. 
   
   And he's expected to propose creating a new, ideological test for admission to the country that would assess a candidate's stances on issues like religious freedom. 
   
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   5 p.m. 
   
   Vice President Joe Biden will declare Donald Trump the most uninformed presidential nominee in history when he campaigns with Hillary Clinton on Monday. 
   
   That's when Biden is set to hold his first campaign rally for Clinton. They'll be in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Biden's office says he'll argue that Trump is less prepared on national security than any previous nominee. He'll also say that Trump's erratic rhetoric and "bluster" will make Pennsylvanians and all Americans less safe. 
   
   Biden's office says he'll praise Clinton as offering solutions for the middle class on jobs and education. He'll also cast Clinton as key to building on the Obama administration's legacy. 
   
   The vice president also plans to say Trump is clueless on the needs of working families. 
   
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   3 p.m. 
   
   Hillary Clinton's campaign is launching a new effort to tap into the political power of young, undocumented immigrants. 
   
   She's hoping to capitalize on Donald Trump's promises to deport them. 
   
   Clinton's national voter registration program is being launched on the four year anniversary of President Barack Obama's 2012 executive order that temporarily shielded some young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children. 
   
   Organizers will remind voters that a Trump presidency would end that program, according to the campaign. It's already at risk after a deadlocked Supreme Court decision in June. 
   
   The 730,000 young people known as DREAMERs are prohibited from voting but they've helped mobilize many Latinos who can. 
   
   The program is part of an effort by Clinton to woo the record 27.3 million Latinos eligible to vote in 2016. 
   
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   9:40 a.m. 
   
   Donald Trump's campaign is on a tear against the media just as his GOP backers are urging him — again — to focus his attacks on his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. 
   
   Trump's campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, on Sunday blamed news organizations for the GOP nominee's difficult week, saying the press focused on a pair of Trump comments for days rather than doing more stories about the economic plan Trump announced. 
   
   Dominating news last week were Trump's remark that Second Amendment backers could "do something" if Hillary Clinton is elected president and appoints liberal judges. He also insisted on a plain falsehood, that President Barack Obama "founded" the Islamic State group, multiple times. 
   
   Trump went on a Twitter rant against the press, complaining that the "disgusting" media is not showing the crowd size of his rallies and is putting "false meaning into the words I say." He also called a New York Times story Sunday about his struggling campaign "fiction." 
   
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   9:20 a.m. 
   
   Donald Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, says the Republican presidential candidate will offer "real specifics" this week on how make the country safer. 
   
   Pence declined to preview Trump's plan in an interview on "Fox News Sunday," saying only that Trump will offer a "change of direction" in counterterrorism policies. 
   
   Trump has called President Barack Obama the "founder" of the Islamic State group. Pence says Trump was trying to make the point that Obama is to blame for the group's rise in power. 
   
   Pence also brushed off a recent letter from the nation's top national security experts, all Republicans, who say Trump can't be trusted as president. He said he understands that "people in the establishment" may have "anxiety about the clear-eyed leadership" Trump will bring. ||||| Donald Trump lashed out at the media on Sunday after more stories describing dysfunction inside his presidential campaign. “If the disgusting and corrupt media covered me honestly and didn’t put false meaning into the words I say, I would be beating Hillary by 20%,” Mr. Trump averred on Twitter. 
   
   Mr. Trump is right that most of the media want him to lose, but then that was also true of George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan. It’s true of every Republican presidential nominee. The difference is that Mr. Trump has... ||||| A New York Times investigation into Paul Manafort’s time consulting for Ukraine’s pro-Russia political party has revealed that the top adviser to GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump Donald TrumpPoll: Majority of Americans believe Russian hacking didn't sway election Trump facing low expectations, poll finds Why you can't just ignore the CIA report on Russia hacking MORE has ties to a large network that Ukrainian government investigators say was used to loot assets and influence elections. 
   
   Manafort’s involvement in Russian and Ukrainian politics has previously been reported but has come under increasing scrutiny as the U.S. election cycle’s focus rests on the region. 
   
   The New York Times said its Sunday report “offers new details of how [Manafort] mixed politics and business out of public view and benefited from powerful interests now under scrutiny by the new government in Kiev.” 
   
   It created a stir on Twitter when former top Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who was fired after clashing with Manafort over campaign strategy, tweeted a link to the article minutes after it was posted. 
   
   Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief https://t.co/7bh7iIHHaY — Corey Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) August 15, 2016 
   
   Many jumped on board, retweeting the article and noting the awkwardness of the former Trump adviser seemingly calling out his successor. 
   
   If Corey recommends this story, it's probably worth the read. https://t.co/9IlWtNDJWl — Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) August 15, 2016 
   
   Stay tuned for more recommendations from Corey's summer reading list. https://t.co/jsVXFa9WTH — Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) August 15, 2016 
   
   Doesnt really feel like Lewandowski and Manafort parted on the best of terms. https://t.co/B4C5X6yktu — Jennifer Palmieri (@jmpalmieri) August 15, 2016 
   
   former Trump campaign manager openly knifing his successor -> https://t.co/VYlssfDg4f — Alex Altman (@aaltman82) August 15, 2016 
   
   After leaving the Trump campaign, Lewandowski got a job doing commentary on CNN. 
   
   "ok so now even the WSJ is being a bitch at least we still have corey at CNN to do damage contr..."@hunterwalk https://t.co/4B2RgCSdew — darth™ (@darth) August 15, 2016 
   
   The media lies. Unless, of course, it reports something you like. pic.twitter.com/TiduRZIEox — Hunter Schwarz (@hunterschwarz) August 15, 2016 
   
   Fairly remarkable tweet-retweet combo from the one and only Corey Lewandowski. cc: @nytimes pic.twitter.com/526yKMk9jh — Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) August 15, 2016 
   
   when you can't wait to tweet it https://t.co/dw4SIGFNl1 — Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) August 15, 2016
target: – Donald Trump's campaign chief may have closer—and more illegal—ties to pro-Russia interests in Ukraine than he has let on, according to a New York Times report on secret ledgers that anti-corruption investigators have uncovered in Kiev. Investigators say the ledgers list $12.7 million in payments to Paul Manafort from the pro-Russia Party of Regions between 2007 and 2012, when he worked as a consultant for the party. It isn't clear whether Manafort actually received the cash, which investigators say is linked to a network that also bribed election officials. Manafort's lawyer says his client never received the payments and any suspicions are "probably heavily politically tinged." In other coverage: The Hill reports that there doesn't appear to be any love lost between Manafort and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski: Lewandowski, who was fired after clashing with Manafort, tweeted a link to the NYT Ukraine story minutes after it first appeared. The AP reports that Trump plans to deliver a major foreign policy speech in Ohio Monday that will focus on "realism," with policies including destroying ISIS without engaging in "nation-building"—and on new ideological tests for people seeking to enter the US. Politico reports that Trump targeted the media in a series of tweets Sunday, claiming that he would be beating Hillary Clinton by 20% if the "disgusting" media covered him honestly. "I am not only fighting Crooked Hillary, I am fighting the dishonest and corrupt media and her government protection process," he tweeted. "It is not 'freedom of the press' when newspapers and others are allowed to say and write whatever they want even if it is completely false!" he added. The Wall Street Journal editorial board warned Sunday that Trump's "window for a turnaround" is closing and his GOP supporters now face a "moment of truth" before he is written off as a lost cause. "The tragedy is that this is happening in a year when Republicans should win," they write.