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PISCATAWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. President Trump defended his son Donald Trump Jr., contrasting his Russia meeting with Hillary Clinton's deleted emails, and accused the news media of DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in a series of angry statements issued early Sunday.

Tweeting from his private golf club in Bedminster, N.J., wherehe is spending the weekend, Trump lashed out at the media for coverage ofthe disclosure thathis oldestson and namesake held a meeting last year with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer who offered damaging information about Clinton, his campaign opponent.

Trump tweeted, HillaryClinton can illegally get the questions to the Debate & delete 33,000 emails but my son Don is being scorned by the Fake News Media?

Trump was referringto emails Clinton deleted from her private server as secretary of state, as well as to hercampaign being providedan early look at a question in a primary debate against Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. The debate controversy surfaced only because of an illegal hack of Democratic emails, which U.S. intelligence agencies have concludedwas orchestrated by Russia, and the emails' subsequent release on WikiLeaks.

What you need to know about Donald Trump Jr.'s ties to Russia. (Thomas Johnson/The Washington Post)

In another tweet Sunday morning, Trump accused the news media of phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting. He said the "#Fake News, the president'sterm for news outlets whose aggressive reporting he does not like, is DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country!

Trump also thanked a former campaign adviser, Michael Caputo, for his testimony Friday before the House Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russian meddling in the U.S. election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.

Caputo told reporters thathe testified in a closed session fornearly four hours and told House investigators, I had no contact with Russians and I never heard of anyone in the Trump campaign talking with Russians.

Trump tweeted, Thank you to former campaign adviser Michael Caputo for saying so powerfully that there was no Russian collusion in our winning campaign.

Caputo worked on the Trump campaign as a communications adviser throughout the Republican primary season but left the team in June 2016 as the general election got underway. He has long ties to Russia, having livedin the country in the 1990s andworking in 2000 as a contractor with the Russian conglomerate Gazprom Media to improve Putin's image in the United States.

Trump has been staying in Bedminster at his Trump National Golf Club since returning from Paris on Friday evening.

The president has been watchingthe U.S. Women's Open, tweeting five times over the weekend about his attendance at the golf tournament. Hespent much of Saturday in an enclosed viewing area, watching the golfers on television and entertaining spectators by flashing a thumbs up or posing for photos.

On Sunday morning, Trump boasted that hissupporters far out-numbered the protesters at the golf club.

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