'Election interference': Trump vows to sue 'very good pollster' for unfavorable Iowa polls
President-elect Donald Trump revealed plans to sue pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register for "election interference" after a November poll showed him losing in Iowa.
During a Monday press conference, Trump was asked if he would continue to sue media outlets after settling a lawsuit with ABC News over the incorrect assertion that he had been found liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll. Instead, the jury found that he had sexually abused Carroll.
"I think you have to do it because they're very dishonest," Trump said of future lawsuits. "I'm going to be bringing one against the people in Iowa, their newspaper, which had a very, very good pollster who got me right all the time."
"And then, just before the election, she said I was going to lose by three or four points, and it became the biggest story all over the world because I was going to win Iowa by 20 points," he continued. "And in my opinion, it was fraud, and it was election interference. You know, she's gotten me right always. She's a very good pollster. She knows what she was doing."
Trump highlighted another planned lawsuit against CBS after he claimed that the 60 Minutes news program edited an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
CBS called the lawsuit "completely without merit," while First Amendment advocates said it was "frivolous and dangerous."
But on Monday, Trump insisted that CBS had also committed "fraud and election interference."
The president-elect planned to move forward with a lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward.
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"He didn't quote me properly from the tapes," Trump explained. "And then, on top of everything else, he sold the tapes, which he wasn't allowed to do."
He also reminded reporters of efforts to punish newspapers that reported on what he called "the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax."
"And I want them to get back, take back the Pulitzer Prizes, and pay big damages," Trump insisted.