DECRYPTION – The president-elect intends to wage battle with the editorial offices of newspapers and television channels which were openly hostile during his presidential campaign. His lawyers are stepping up legal actions.
« Old media is dead » repeats over and over again Elon Musk, the unconditional ally of Donald Trump who believes that the triumphant victory of the president-elect demonstrates his point. With 2.3 million more votes than Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and coming in first in 30 out of 50 states, Donald Trump believes he has taught a lesson to the media in open campaign against him. He now intends to take revenge on editorial offices which are openly hostile to him.
Cloaked in the constitutional protection of freedom of expression and convinced of the correctness of their tone, newspapers and television channels are a little less certain of their immunity since the ABC channel (a Disney subsidiary) broke their common front. By paying $15 million to a foundation chosen by Donald Trump to apologize for proclaiming that the candidate had been “ found guilty of rape », the president-elect’s lawyers opened a breach.
They also accuse the Des Moines Register « brazen election interference »: the daily published, three days before the election, a shocking poll giving Kamala Harris a 3% lead in Iowa. Other media, including in Europe, immediately picked up and amplified…
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