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Saturday, March 15, 2025
Trump calls US media outlets critical of him ‘illegal’
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US President Donald Trump says in a speech at the Department of Justice that US media outlets that cover him critically are “illegal” and “corrupt.”
Trump says CNN, MSNBC and unidentified newspapers “literally write 97.6 percent bad about me” and “it has to stop. It has to be illegal.”
Speaking to prosecutors and law enforcement officers at the Department of Justice headquarters, Trump describes the media outlets as “political arms of the Democrat party. And in my opinion they’re really corrupt and they’re illegal. What they do is illegal.”
He says the media is “influencing judges and it’s really changing law, and it just cannot be legal. I don’t believe it’s legal. And they do it in total coordination with each other.”
Trump has made attacks on the US media a central part of his message ever since his first election to the presidency in 2016.
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