Trump vs. the media

 

WATCH: Trump sounds off on future defamation suits against the liberal media.... 
Reporter: “I want to expand on the defamation lawsuits. Can you see moving that other people with individual platforms, social media influencers, people that —” 
Trump: “Or newspapers, yeah.” Reporter: “— yeah.” 
Trump: “Yeah. Oh, I do. I do. I think you have to do it because they’re very dishonest. We need a great media. We need a fair media. We need a — it's very important. And we need borders. We need walls, but we need borders and we need fair elections. We look at California. Millions and millions of ballots were sent out. They are still counting the vote in California with the machines. They are counting the vote. If you had paper ballots, votes would have been counted four weeks ago, three weeks ago. Now, you need fair elections, you need borders, and you need a fair press. And the press is — no, I see others. I have a few others that I'm doing. I’m going to — as an example — I'm doing this not because I want to. I'm doing it because I feel I have an obligation to — I will be bringing one against the people in Iowa, their newspaper, which had a very, very good pollster who got the right all the time and then, just before the election, she said I was going to lose by three or four points and it became the biggest story all over the world because I was going to win Iowa by 20 points. The farmers love me and I love the farmers. It was interesting the way she did it, she brought it down — two weeks before, she said I was going to only win by four. That was a big story. But that was good because she brought it down from, like, 22 points to 4 or whenever the number was, way up, way up. Easy win. Never — would never have even thought to go there. I respect them. I love them and I understand there’s no reason to go there because she brought it from way up, walk away which it was and it turned out to be in the election too, by the way. It was a win by many, many points and she brought it down very smartly to four a couple of weeks before and everyone said wow, that's amazing. He's only up by four points. Then she brought it down to where I was down by three or four, whatever the number she used and that was The Des Moines Register. And it was there [sic] apparent and in my opinion it was fraud and it was election interference. You know, she’s gotten me right always. She's a very pollster. She knew what she was doing. And then she quit before and will probably be filing a major lawsuit against them today or tomorrow. We are filing one on "60 minutes." You know about that where they took Kamala's answer which was a crazy answer, a horrible answer, and they took the whole answer out and they replaced it with something she said later on in the interview, which wasn't a great answer, but it wasn't, like, the first one. The first one was grossly incompetent. It was weird. And that was fraud and election interference by their newsmagazine, big part of CBS News. So, as you know, we’re involved in one which has been going on for a while. We’re involved in one that has been going on for awhile and very successfully against Bob Woodward where he didn't quote me properly from the tapes and then, on top of everything else he sold the tapes which he wasn't allowed to do. He could only use them for reporting purposes, not for sale purposes and he admits that and I think we’ll be successful on that one. And we have one very interestingly on Pulitzer because reporters of The New York Times, Washington Post got Pulitzer Prizes for their wonderful, accurate, and highly professional reporting on the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. Well, it turned out to be a hoax and they were exactly wrong. People like — many people, John Solomon, Sean Hannity is not for Pulitzer but Sean Hannity got it right, many people got it right. Tucker got it right, Jesse got it right, Laura got it right, Jeanine got it right. A lot of people got it right. They didn’t get anything. They gave it to reporters that got it absolutely wrong and now, everybody admits it was a hoax. And I want them to get — take back the Pulitzer Prizes and pay big damages and I think we’re doing very well on that one. They — they have no excuse for it They gave a Pultizer Prize o writers that got Russia, Russia, Russia wrong. And so, I think we’re doing well and I feel I have to do this. I shouldn't really be the one to do it. It should have been the Justice Department or somebody else, but I have to do it. It costs a lot of money to do it. But we have to straighten out the press. Our press is very corrupt, almost as corrupt as our elections.”

I can understand Trump's dissatisfaction with the left-wing media.  Their hostility to his campaign appears obvious.  I have also criticized them for giving themselves awards for getting the Russian collusion hoax totally wrong.  Trump has had recent success with a suit against one media outlet, and it looks like he will be going after others who he believes have engaged in election interference.
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