Trump Accuses Media of Doing ‘Totally Illegal’ Reporting

President Donald Trump ripped the media on Friday, as is typical, but he went a step further by calling the press’s coverage of the justice system “totally illegal.”

Trump spoke at the Department of Justice, where he rehashed many of his old grievances, including the criminal cases against him that have since been dropped. The president praised Judge Aileen Cannon for tossing the classified documents case against him. Another federal case, involving Trump’s attempt to overturn the election that year, was dropped after Trump was elected. According to DOJ policy, sitting presidents cannot be federally prosecuted. He then went on a digression about former basketball coach Bobby Knight, who famously went ballistic on referees.

“Bobby Knight would play the ref,” Trump said. “He would play the ref. He’d scream at the ref. He would scream so hard. Oh boy, it was terrible, actually. And the people would come up, his assistant coaches would come up, ‘Coach don’t do that.'”

He then turned his ire toward several news outlets, including the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal, which has been critical of his tariff policy. While doing so, he alleged their coverage has been “totally illegal”:

And The New York Times will write whatever these people say. The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and MSDNC [sic], and fake news CNN, and ABC, CBS, and NBC. And they’ll write whatever they say.

And what do you do to get rid of it? You convict Trump. All you have to do is be really tough on him and ultimately, convict him and they leave you alone. It’s totally illegal what they do. I just hope you can all watch for it, but it’s totally illegal. And it’s so unfair what they were doing to [Cannon], but they do it all the time with judges.

But in her case, she was very courageous, and it only made her angry. Wouldn’t you say? It just made her angry. She didn’t like it.

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