Donald Trump's disturbing war on the press has now escalated | Lloyd Green

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

80% : Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton all won by larger margins.
69% : "The November 5 election was a monumental victory for President Trump in both the electoral college and the popular vote, an overwhelming mandate for his America First principles," the pleadings declared.
68% : On election day, Trump actually triumphed there by double digits.
54% : For Trump and his allies, however, overturning New York Times v Sullivan, the US supreme court's unanimous 1964 landmark ruling on press freedoms, is the ultimate prize.
53% : Days after the election, "Morning Joe" Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, his wife and co-host, raced down to Mar-a-Lago to interview Trump.
50% : Not necessarily known for accuracy, Trump, through his lawyers, embarked on another fantasy.
40% : Trump has sued the Des Moines Register - merely for publishing a poll that wrongly predicted Harris would win IowaThe Donald Trump vengeance tour is on the road and the media is in its crosshairs.
30% : Trump has also filed a $10bn action against CBS for purportedly doctoring its 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris.
23% : Kaplan also set out in detail why it may be said that Trump raped Carroll.
21% : Last spring George Stephanopoulos, its Sunday talkshow host, repeatedly said Trump was liable for rape when a jury had actually found him liable for abuse.
21% : Trump may have inadvertently opened the door for attacks on his friends.
19% : In August 2023, Trump lost his counter-claim for defamation against Carroll.
18% : Beyond that, Trump stands liable to E Jean Carroll for more than $85m after he lost two civil defamation and sexual abuse cases in Manhattan federal court.
13% : Dismissing the Trump counter-claim, a judge in New York, Lewis A Kaplan, said that when Carroll repeated her allegation that Trump raped her, her words were "substantially true".

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