From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics
Subject: Re: 'Bout Fucking Time! - Trump Threatens To Sue Authors And Media
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 20:08:11 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-02-26 19:29, AlleyCat wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:38:41 -0500 (EST), Bradley K. Sherman
> says...
>
>> A person who was within earshot...
>
> Always the "anonymous" sources, with these faggots.
Your sources are almost always anonymous, Phil.
>
> =====
>
> Trump Threatens To Sue Authors And Media Who Use Anonymous Sources
Like all the times Trump talks about anonymous people who he claims are
telling him what a great job he's doing
>
> US President Donald Trump, furious over a disparaging new tell-all
> book about him, threatened Wednesday to sue authors and media
> outlets that use anonymous sources.
>
> Trump has made suing people an integral part of his brand as he made
> his way up from New York real estate mogul to the US presidency
> twice, and this time he is taking aim at the common practice of
> books and news stories using unnamed sources.
>
> Trump is also famously contemptuous of mainstream media in America,
> which he routinely labels the "fake news" media.
>
> His latest move comes after the publication of a new expose by
> journalist Michael Wolff that has Trump and his team livid.
>
> Among other assertions the book says that after surviving an
> assassination attempt last summer during the election campaign,
> Trump "seemed possibly on the verge of cracking, " unable to finish
> sentences and flying into rages that were stunning even for the
> famously thin-skinned former reality TV star.
>
> In a social media post Trump said that after what he called his
> wildly successful first month back in power, "Fake books and
> stories" with anonymous sources are coming out and "at some point I
> am going to sue some of these dishonest authors and book publishers"
> to determine if these sources exist, "which they largely do not."
>
> Trump added: "They are made up, defamatory fiction, and a big price
> should be paid for this blatant dishonesty. I'll do it as a service
> to our Country. Who knows, maybe we will create some NICE NEW LAW!!!
>
> The new book by Wolff - he had a bestseller that came out in 2018
> called "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" - among other
> bombshell claims also quotes a Mar-a-Lago source as saying Trump's
> wife Melania hates him.
>
> The Trump White House is skirmishing early and often with the news
> media as the president presses relentlessly his hard-right agenda
> targeting immigrants and gutting the federal government through the
> free-wheeling work of billionaire Elon Musk, an adviser with an
> outsize role in Trump's so far very busy second term.
>
> On Tuesday the administration broke decades of tradition by
> announcing that the White House itself would pick which media get
> close access to the president in confined quarters like the Oval
> Office as part of what is known as a press pool.
>
> Until now an independent association of American media organizations
> covering the White House made this selection.