Donald Trump Wants To Punish Anyone Who Doesn’t Like Him
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The president has turned his eyes towards the biggest platform for criticism: the media.
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Donald Trump is aggressively escalating his pressure campaign on media he doesn’t approve of.
When The Wall Street Journal — whose parent company is owned by Rupert Murdoch, a billionaire and powerful Trump ally — published a news story about Trump’s ties to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein last week, the president openly admitted that he had tried to get the story killed.
“I told Rupert Murdoch it was a Scam, that he shouldn’t print this Fake Story,” Trump posted on Truth Social, the social media app he owns. “But he did, and now I’m going to sue his ass off, and that of his third rate newspaper.”
“Mr. Murdoch stated that he would take care of it but, obviously, did not have the power to do so,” Trump wrote in another post.
One person is dead and another has been left critically injured after two helicopters crashed in a southern New Jersey town.
The pair met up at Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida resort for the next round of talks to end Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine.
"They had to stop him from posting," a witness told the Wall Street Journal.
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's clap back at Musk came after the tech billionaire previously referred to him as a “charismatic swindler."
The former Fox News star's eldest slammed his father's foe for some extreme advice he recently gave to young Americans.
Rep. Ro Khanna (Calif.) made his remarks after the DOJ released a photo of the former Prince Andrew amid the Jeffrey Epstein case files.
Kaylee McGhee White argued on "The Five" that President Donald Trump himself is to blame — because he's done too good of a job.
"These things are choreographed, you think, pretty well," Joe Concha said while discussing the holiday photo shared by former President Joe Biden.
The "Daily Show" correspondent has covered numerous MAGA rallies and demonstrations since President Donald Trump first entered politics.
At least 1,500 flights were canceled from Friday night into Saturday, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware.
“Imagine being afraid to provide what you think is appropriate legal advice," one former attorney told HuffPost.
Attorneys say Duane “Keffe D” Davis was unfairly targeted with a nighttime search warrant.
In his announcement, Trump's FBI director boasted that he, along with the president and Congress, had “accomplished what no one else could.”