The Cost of Trump’s Assault on the Press and the Truth
The President is being forced to give up his attempt to overturn the election. But he will continue his efforts to build an alternative reality around himself.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/07/the-cost-of-trumps-assault-on-the-press-and-the-truth
But Trump knew precisely what he was doing, and he never let up. During a meeting at Trump Tower, Leslie Stahl, of CBS News, asked why he kept attacking the press. “You know why I do it?” he said. “I do it to discredit you all and demean you all, so that, when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.”