President Trump Exhumes Veiled Threat to Change Libel Laws

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President Donald Trump has renewed his suggestion that libel laws might need to be tightened so he could pursue news outlets whose stories he feels are wrong or unjustified attacks. In a tweet March 30, the President once again took aim at one of the mainstays of the mainstream media. "The failing @nytimes has disgraced the media world," he wrote. "Gotten me wrong for two solid years. Change libel laws?" That followed a tweet from March 29: "Remember when the failing @nytimes apologized to its subscribers, right after the election, because their coverage was so wrong. Now worse!"


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