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The term "fake news" has been weaponized with the goal of undermining public trust in news media. [155] President Donald Trump seized on the term "fake news" [161] [162] as a way of denigrating any story or outlet critical of him, even appearing to claim to have invented the term [163] and handing out so-called "Fake News Awards" in 2017. [164]
From his inauguration in January 2017 through October 15, 2019, Trump called the news media the "enemy of the people" 36 times on Twitter. [3]In 2012, former Democratic pollster Patrick Caddell gave a speech at a conference sponsored by Accuracy in Media, a conservative watchdog group, in which he called the media "the enemy of the American people".
The organization defined "major newspaper" as the one hundred largest daily newspapers. They found an increase among major newspaper making no endorsement from 9 in 2004, to 8 in 2008, to 23 in 2012, to 26 in 2016, to 44 in 2020 to 71 non-endorsers in 2024.
In total, Trump's article received over 10,000 edits from its creation to January 2016. [4] By September of that year, Trump's article had become the 28th most edited for a person on the site. [5] The next month, The Washington Post reported that Trump's page was edited more times in an election cycle than other Republican nominees since 2004. [6]
Fred Trump III, author, advocate for people with disabilities, and Donald Trump's nephew (endorsed Kamala Harris) [260] [261] George Will , conservative columnist and political commentator ( endorsed Kamala Harris ) [ 262 ] [ 263 ]
Trump called for a congressional investigation into the matter, and the Trump administration cited news reports to defend these accusations. His initial claims appeared to have been based on a Breitbart News article he had been given which repeated speculations made by conspiracy theorist Louise Mensch or on a Bret Baier interview, both of ...
[2] [3] American intelligence agencies have assessed that Russia prefers Trump to win the election, viewing him as more skeptical of U.S. support for Ukraine. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Following the withdrawal of Biden from the presidential race, Microsoft reported that Russian intelligence "struggled to pivot" to attacking Harris, but by late August and ...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov tells the Interfax news agency "there were contacts" with the Trump team during the campaign. [27] He says, "I don't say that all of them, but a whole array of them supported contacts with Russian representatives." [15]: 21