Donald Trump He once again threatened the means of news for the coverage he hates, this time New York Times and CNN On their reports on the evaluation of the first intelligence that raised the doubts that the United States hit Iran Their nuclear program was destroyed.
The White House was a war against journalists on their reports, although the press secretary, Caroline Levitt, acknowledged the existence of the intelligence assessment. Trump and his allies have gone to the point of accusing CNN and the distortion times of the army members who carried out the strikes, although their reports were not criticizing how the mission was carried out.
Trump insisted that Iran’s nuclear capabilities are “bound.”
In the Times, Trump demanded a retreat and apologize, as his lawyer, Alejandro Brito, described reports as “wrong”, “defaming” and “non -national”.
“There is no need to decline. There will be no apology.”
McGaru wrote to Britto, “While the Trump administration protests that the assessments were only primary – which, by the way, was the second word of our article – and that subsequent assessments had reached various conclusions, no one in the administration was opposed that the first assessments said exactly what the article said they did: the destruction caused by the raid was not important as shown in the president’s statements.”
He added that “the American public has the right to know whether the attack on Iran – with funding from tax dollars and the tremendous result of every citizen – was successful. We rely on our intelligence services to provide a kind of neutral assessment that we all need in the case of democracy to judge the policy of our country and the quality of our leaders’ decisions. Even it is more than the president to use the threat of the defamation to try to silence a publication that dared to report that intelligence experts The coaches, professionals and patriots used by the US government have made a mistake in his initial observation.
CNN also received a legal threat. “We can confirm that we received a letter and responded to it, and they refused to claim the letter,” said a spokesman.
Trump has called on reporters for the stories to be launched, but she has allocated Natasha Bertrand from CNN. On Thursday, at a press conference, Levitte attacked the previous reports of Petrand. The network said it was behind “100 % behind” Bertrand and her work.
The legal threat to the president is not unusual. He has previously filed a lawsuit against the Times and CNN, but various cases were rejected. File a suit on CBS on the way a 60 minutes An interview with Kamala Harris was edited. The network said that the lawsuit is in vain, as well as a number of legal scholars, but its lawyers in the settlement talks with the Trump team. CBS PAROLUNT GLOBAL seeks to obtain the approval of the administration to integrate it with Skydance Media.
Earlier on Thursday, Betty Higseth, Trump’s Minister of Defense, held a press conference in which he also hit the media to inform her of the intelligence report.
“You are chanting against Trump hard, in your DNA and in your blood, chanting against Trump because you want to not succeed very bad, you have to cheer effectively these strikes,” Higseth told reporters in the Pentagon.
He said that he was “urging caution to present full stories about the biased leaks of biased leaks to make something bad.
