CNN: Trump's 'Combative' Approach to Media 'Not A Very Good Strategy'

Matthew Balan | May 31, 2016
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

On the 31 May 2016 edition of Legal View, CNN's Mark Preston asserted that Donald Trump's latest attack on the media was "an absolute mistake because he doesn't want to necessarily do that." Preston soon added that "Trump deciding to take on the media at this point because he doesn't feel like they are treating him well is actually not a very good strategy — to the point the question was asked to him...do you have a thick enough skin to run for president? And he deflected on that question himself."

Dana Bash was more blunt in her take on the billionaire's criticism of the press's recent questioning of his fundraising for veterans causes: "If Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders or any other politician had a big rally and skipped a presidential debate and said, I'm going to do this because I'm going to raise money for veterans, you bet we would all be on top of them....It is the fourth estate; it is our job; and it is why...a free press was a fundamental thing when our Constitution was created. This is the reason why."

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