Donald Trump, Following ABC Settlement, Says He’ll File More Lawsuits Against Media, Including Iowa Pollster: “We Have To Straighten Out The Press”
deadline.comDonald Trump vowed to file additional lawsuits against media outlets and media figures, just days after he settled his lawsuit against ABC in which the network agreed to contribute $15 million to his presidential foundation and library. “We have to straighten out our press.
Our press is very corrupt, almost as corrupt as our elections,” Trump told reporters today in a press conference. Trump suggested that he would file a lawsuit against Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register, which published her poll, just days before the election, that showed Kamala Harris with a three-percentage point lead in the state.
As it turned out, Trump won the state by more than 13 percentage points. Trump claimed that the poll was “fraud” and “election interference.” “We’ll probably be filing a major lawsuit against them today or tomorrow,” he said.
Selzer, in an interview with a local PBS station last week, said that she is “mystified about the motivation that anybody thinks I had and would act on in such a public poll.
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