Trump Tweets Vague Threat To Change Libel Laws Because Of NYT

President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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President Donald Trump seemed to suggest Thursday that laws about libel needed to be changed because he feels The New York Times has gotten him “wrong.”

Trump is very clearly not a fan of the media, but he seems to have a special grievance with the Times. This is the second time this week he has railed against them specifically. But the Times was one of the first news outlets Trump called after House Republicans decided to pull their Affordable Care Act repeal bill last week.

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  1. And in other news of the day…

  2. I’ll bet you a dollar Trump can’t recite all 26 letters of the alphabet in order.

  3. He has gone to this well too many times. Its just low energy noise now.

  4. No worries, Trump. Relax that tweeting finger! The Senate Intelligence Committee succeeds where Nunes failed, being boring. Cameras disappear. The issue eventually goes poof until we’re speaking Russian…

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