Donald Trump is waging a relentless Twitter crusade against a New Hampshire newspaper
"I am pleased to announce that I had the Union Leader removed from the upcoming debate," Trump tweeted.
Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, wasn't done there. He fired off other tweets slamming the Union Leader and accusing it of "unethical behavior."
Union Leader publisher Joseph McQuaid released a statement saying he was "amused" that ABC disapproved of his newspaper's endorsement of Trump's Republican presidential rival Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey.
"We will get over being 'severed,'" he said. "We are amused by ABC apparently just discovering that we write editorials and endorse candidates. We have been doing both for decades and it hasn't been an issue for ABC or anyone else."
Trump's Sunday tweets:
Trump declared war on the Union Leader at the end of last year after the newspaper published a front-page editorial criticizing his candidacy.
"He reminds us of the grownup bully 'Biff' in the 'Back to the Future' movie series," McQuaid wrote in an editorial titled, "Trump campaign insults NH voters' intelligence."
"Trump has shown himself to be a crude blowhard with no clear political philosophy and no deeper understanding of the important and serious role of president of the United States than one of the goons he lets rough up protesters in his crowds," he continued.
Trump responded by repeatedly blasting McQuaid on Twitter and in his speeches on the campaign trail. In a series of tweets spanning multiple days, Trump called McQuaid "stinky" and declared that the newspaper was failing: