Armed with multimilian-dollar cases and regulatory threats, Donald Trump is taking his long-standing fight with American media to a new level-targeting the finance of thengters is already in a difficult commercial climate to target finance are struggling.
The President had long had a opposition relationship with mainstream news outlets, received as a “enemy of people”. A notable exception is the powerful conservative broadcaster Fox News, some of which have played lead roles in their administration and where his daughter Lara Trump is ready to start as a primetime host.
Trump is now doubled on its anti-media rhetoric in its first month in the office, which has focused on cutting the news membership of government agencies in the case of resentment created by observers.
The news outlet Politico was at the center of a social media store, including the Alone Musk posting screenshot with Trump supporters, incorrectly mentioned to show more than $ 8 million, the United States agency for International Development ( The site was funnel from USAID).
A prominent advisor to the Humanitarian Agency, Trump, aimed at a comprehensive cost-cutting campaign by billionaire Musk, with a call to the President’s closure.
The records on usaspending.gov, an online tracker of government payment, showed that federal agencies paid about $ 8 million to Politico for membership including their Politico Pro Service.
Payment from USAID was a small fraction of that clan, the record was shown.
But the facts did not prevent Trump from incorrectly claiming that billions of dollars from USAIDs and other agencies improperly went into unfairly as ‘payment’ to make good stories about Democrats in fake news media. “
The Chief Executive Officer of Politico and John Harris, its editor, John Harris wrote in a note, “We have never received any government funding-no subsidy, no grant, no handout.”
“Government agencies who do so through standard public procurement processes – just like any other tool they buy to do clever work and are more efficient. It is not funding. It is a transaction.”
‘Punishment media’
The White House has said that it will cancel its Politico membership.
Other media outlets also risk losing millions of dollars. If the government leaves more membership, a liver for the Trump administration to weaken a press that is already facing financial stress, supervisors say.
From left-wet think media matters, Matt Gartz said, “The upshot of all of this nonsense is that (America Great Again) is the new knowledge in the base, which they use to explain any adverse coverage for Trump Can. ” The President’s chief “Maga” political slogan.
Under another type of pressure, Brendon Carr, the new head of Trump’s Federal Communication Commission, ordered an inquiry into NPR and PBS, a step that some concerns are aimed at highlighting federal funding for public broadcasters .
“The new administration is increasing a versatile effort to punish the media,” told AFP, Professor Roy Gutterman at the University of Syrackuse.
“We are just moving beyond the dangers.”
$ 10 billion trial
In an unprecedented step, Trump’s administration announced that eight media organizations, including New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NBC and NPR, would have to vacate their dedicated office places in Pentagon.
This cited the need to make a place for other outlets including Orthodox New York Post and Breetbart.
And in December, ABC News agreed to pay a $ 15 million to settle a case brought by Trump, stating that the network’s star anchor George Stephanopolos had defamed him.
Basti was seen as a major concession by a large media organization for Trump, whose previous attempts to sue the news outlet have often ended in defeat.
Jamil Jaffer, Executive Director of the Night First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, wrote in a New York Times column, “The spectacle of powerful media organizations harassing himself before Trump has become so familiar Has felt. “
CBS News, another FCC investigation center at the center of the investigation and a $ 10 billion case from Trump, recently with FCC request to hand over raw footage from Democratic Presidential candidate Kamla Harris to hand over raw footage from an interview last year, President Accused this. Cheating editing.
CBS’s original company Paramount, now considering settling the trial, media reports say, at a time when it requires Trump’s support for his proposed merger with Skidan.
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