Donald Trump clearly thinks bad voting is illegal
What can we expect? Donald Trumpsecond term, besides block expulsion, January 6 amnestyOne “virtual closure [the] Department of Education,” and one Potential end to some life-saving childhood vaccines? Looks like a media war!
During Monday’s press conference, Trump was asked if he planned to file more defamation lawsuits following the one he settled with ABC News over the weekend, which resulted in the network cutting its settlement check. price 15 million USD. He replied that it was all planned, speak“We have to solve our journalism problem. Our press is corrupt, almost as corrupt as our elections.” Then he speak: “I’m going to wage a war against the people of Iowa, their newspaper, which has a very good pollster who keeps me right. And right before the election, she said I was going to lose by three or four points.” The pollster in question is Ann Selzer, Who worked for the Des Moines Register for years and who released a poll just before the 2024 election that showed the Vice President Kamala Harris with a three-point lead over Trump in Iowa.
Of course, as we know, Trump won the state by just over 13 points, which means Selzer was very wrong. However, it remains unclear whether incorrectly predicting election results is illegal. In fact, Selzer probably wished he had done the right thing, instead of being so embarrassed. incorrect. Speaking to PBS last week, Iowa pollster speak: “I am very confused about the motives people think I have and would act in such a public poll. I don’t understand it. And the accusations I take very seriously. They say this is election interference, a crime…. To suggest without a shred of evidence that I colluded with someone, that I was paid by someone—it’s all just…it’s hard to pay too much attention to that other than the fact that they’re accusing me .” She also noted that she believes her poll putting Harris ahead of Trump “could really energize and activate Republican voters” to vote in support of the former president. Selzer announced last month that she had dropped out of the polls.
Trump’s vow to file more lawsuits against the media comes just days after ABC News announced that it would pay $15 million to settle a defamation lawsuit against the network brought by the former president . In that case, Trump claimed he was defamed by the host George Stephanopoulos, who said in an interview that Trump was responsible for rape. Rather, the jury found him responsible for sexually abusing the writer. E. Jean Carroll, even though the judge presided over the case later wrote in one submit application: “…jury finds that Mr. Trump ‘molested’ Ms. Carroll implicitly established that he digitally raped her – in other words, that Mr. Trump had in fact ‘raped ‘ Ms. Carroll as that term is commonly used and understood in contexts outside of New York Criminal Law.”
Critics of ABC’s settlement fear it will lead to more lawsuits against the media by an emboldened Trump. (As Trump noted during Monday’s press conference, he currently has pending lawsuits against CBS News reporter Bob Woodward, and the Pulitzer board.) On X, former advisor to Obama David Axelrod wrote: “Now Trump says he’s suing Des Moines Register because their poll underestimated his support; 60 minutes because they edited the @KamalaHarris interview; Pulitzer committee honors @nytimes coverage of Russian election interference. Welcome to Hungary, guys!”
