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Last week ABC News agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by Trump against the network for $15 million. The suit alleged that “This Week”<\/em> anchor George Stephanopoulos had defamed Trump by asserting that he had been found liable for rape by the jury in the defamation case filed by writer E. Jean Carroll. However, it was the judge who, after the fact, said that Trump’s assault amounted to rape, as the term is generally understood. The jury only found that Trump was liable for sexual abuse. And Trump seems to regard being a confirmed sexual abuser as a victory.<\/p>\n SEE THIS: TRUMP WINS? ABC News Settles His Lawsuit Confirming that He Was Found Liable for Sexual Abuse<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Following the ABC News settlement, Trump is already talking excitedly about his efforts to punish other media with vengeance-fueled lawsuits. It is his way of terrorizing the free press that he refers to in Stalinist terms as “the enemy of the people.”<\/em> So in an impromptu press conference Monday morning, Trump lashed out at the media in his typically hostile manner.<\/p>\n Trump began his rant about suing the media (at 30:33 in the video below)<\/em> with an inane threat to sue the Des Moines Register over a poll that showed him losing the election, which he called “fraud”<\/em> and “election interference.”<\/em> Then he went to discuss his lawsuit against CBS News saying that…<\/p>\n “We’re filing one on 60 Minutes, where they took Kamala’s answer, which was a crazy answer, a horrible answer. And they took the whole answer out and they replaced it with something else she said later on in the interview. […] And that was fraud. and election interference by their news magazine, a big part of CBS News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Of course, none of what he said is remotely true. 60 Minutes did nothing more than to make routine edits for time and clarity. Nothing they did impacted the content or context of the interview. But that didn’t stop Trump from demanding that the license for CBS – and ALL broadcast networks – be revoked<\/a><\/strong>. [Note: The federal government does not license networks, only individual stations]<\/em>. And he was just getting started. He continued…<\/p>\n “We’re involved in one, which has been going on for a while very successfully, against Bob Woodward, where he didn’t quote me properly from the tapes. And then on top of everything else, he sold the tapes. Which he wasn’t allowed to do.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Once again, Trump is lying. Woodward taped his conversations with Trump for the book, RAGE!<\/a><\/strong>, and used them for that purpose. Furthermore, he quoted Trump verbatim, and has the tapes to back that up. In the book Woodward documented how Trump lied and downplayed COVID when he knew just how deadly it was. But he still wasn’t finished. He went on…<\/p>\n “And we have one very interestingly on Pulitzer, because reporters at the New York Times, Washington Post got Pulitzer prizes for their wonderful, accurate, and highly professional reporting on the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax. Well, it turned out to be a hoax, and they were exactly wrong.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This may be the most absurd lawsuit of them all. Trump isn’t suing the New York Times or the Washington Post. He’s suing the Pulitzer committee at Columbia University<\/a><\/strong>, who are entirely within their rights to award prizes as they see fit. What’s more, Trump claims that the articles documenting his unsavory associations with Russia “turned out to be a hoax,”<\/em> that “now everybody admits.”<\/em> Which could not be farther from the truth. Even the Republican led Senate Intelligence Committee report affirmed the Trump\/Russia connections.<\/p>\n SEE ALSO: GEEZ! Trump is STILL Obsessed With the \u2018Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax\u2019 that is NOT a Hoax<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Trump also spent some time flattering his Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News. He babbled that…<\/p>\n “Sean Hannity got it right. Many people got it right. Tucker [Carlson] got it right. Jesse [Watters] got it right. Laura [Ingraham] got it right. Jeanine [Pirro] got it right. A lot of people got it right. They didn’t get anything. They gave it to reporters that got it absolutely wrong. And now everybody admits it was a hoax. And I want them to take back the Pulitzer prizes and pay damages. […]<\/p>\n I feel I have to do this. I shouldn’t really be the one to do it. It should have been the Justice Department, or somebody else. But I have to do it. It costs a lot of money to do it. But we have to straighten out the press. Our press is very corrupt, almost as corrupt as our elections.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The only things that any of them got right, at least from Trump’s perverse perspective, was their unwavering adoration of Trump and conformity to his worldview. And any deviation from that will result in punitive measures that will be carried out by his administration, overseen by his nominee for FBI Director, Kash Patel, who has sworn to “come after the people in the media.”<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Will the media allow this unconstitutional persecution of the free press to proceed? Hopefully the surrender by ABC News isn’t the consensus answer to that question.<\/p>\n