The president-elect used a childish nickname for the journalist and called her "a third rate writer and fourth rate intellect."

He specifically called out national political correspondent Maggie Haberman as a “a third rate writer and fourth rate intellect, writes story after story, always terrible, and yet I almost never speak to her.” Epshteyn denied the allegations.

Donald Trump leveled a late-night attack against the New York Times and demanded an apology from the newspaper for its recent coverage of him. It's not clear what triggered Trump's rant in the early hours of Tuesday.