President-elect Donald Trump has escalated his attacks on the press. On Tuesday, Trump filed a lawsuit against prominent pollster J. Ann Selzer, her polling firm Selzer & Company, The Des Moines Register, and the newspaper’s parent company, Gannett, alleging violations of the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act. Trump accuses them of “brazen election interference” over a November 2 poll that showed former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris ahead of Trump by three points in Iowa. Trump claims news coverage of the poll, just days before Election Day, was intended to help Harris’s campaign. Trump ended up winning Iowa with 56% of the votes. This comes after ABC News, which is owned by Disney, agreed to donate $15 million to Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation suit filed by the president-elect. We’ll have more on this story later in the broadcast.
