If you didn’t catch President-elect Donald Trump’s Monday press conference from Mar-a-Lago, you missed one humdinger of a media event. The purpose of the event, as covered by RedState’s Ward Clark, was to announce a $100 billion investment by the Japanese technology firm SoftBank, a move that is expected to create more than 100,000 American jobs.
Once that triumphant announcement was made, Trump did what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have long been afraid to do — he took questions from the assembled media without having the answers written down for him. It was a thing to behold; it was Trump at his best, easily handling the questions being thrown at him and putting hostile reporters in their places.
No topic was off limits, and a lot of ground was covered, from drones and deportations to border wall sell-offs and CEO murders. One topic that elicited a long answer from the president-elect was in reply to a question about his big $15 million win against ABC, which he sued for defamation. RedState’s Bonchie had the details on that big Trump win:
Donald Trump has won again. ABC News and George Stephanopoulos have settled the defamation lawsuit brought by the incoming president, with the news network agreeing to pay $15 million in damages while also issuing an apology.
The lawsuit was first filed after Stephanopoulos claimed as a matter of fact that Trump had “raped” E. Jean Carroll. The comment came during an interview with Rep. Nancy Mace.
A reporter at Mar-a-Lago asked Trump if he intended to keep pursuing lawsuits against media outlets — whether it be newspapers, cable networks, or social media influencers — once he’s back in the White House.
Trump’s answer? “I think you have to do it because they’re very dishonest.”
He continued:
“You need fair elections, you need borders and you need a fair press. I have a few others [lawsuits] that I’m doing. I’m not doing this because I want to, I’m doing this because I feel I have an obligation to.”
What a whiny bitch.