Article in Daily Beast by Grace Harrington, 12/16/24
Headline: “Trump Steps Up Revenge Tour on Media With New Threats to Sue”
Subhead: “The president-elect unveiled plans for one lawsuit and boasted about more high-profile targets.”
“Donald Trump announced Monday he would sue political pollster Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register, which published a shock poll showing Trump losing Iowa by three points.
“I’m not doing this because I want to, I’m doing this because I feel I have an obligation to,” the president-elect said.
Trump’s announcement comes after he received a settlement from ABC News after he filed a defamation suit against the network. ABC News’ star anchor, George Stephanopoulos, said multiple times Trump was found “liable for rape,” when he was actually found liable for sexual abuse. As a result, ABC will contribute $15 million to Trump’s future presidential library. Trump’s win against ABC would embolden him to sue even more news organizations, critics said.
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Article in The New Republic by Edith Olmsted, 12/16/24
Headline: “Trump Unleashes Dangerous New Attack on Media After ABC Win”
Subhead: “Donald Trump is feeling emboldened in his war on journalism.”
“Donald Trump promised Monday to launch a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register over a preelection poll that found Vice President Kamala Harris had “leapfrogged” the Republican candidate, in a state he went on to handily win.
During a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, one journalist asked Trump about his ongoing defamation cases, asking, “Could you see moving that to other people with individual platforms, social media influencers, people that—”
“Or newspapers, yeah.” Trump interrupted.
https://newrepublic.com/post/189441/donald-trump-new-attack-media-lawsuit-abc