Why is Trump’s Campaign Suing a Small TV Station in Wisconsin?

On the Media

• Episode: Why is Trump’s Campaign Suing a Small TV Station in Wisconsin?
• Website: On the Media
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• Duration: 00:29:44
• Published: 2020-07-29 18:00

In this week's pod extra, we bring you an episode from Trump, Inc., a podcast from our friends at WNYC Studios, about a new threat to press freedom. This year, President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign filed defamation lawsuits against three of the country’s most prominent news organizations: the New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN. Then it filed another suit against a somewhat lower-profile news organization: northern Wisconsin’s WJFW-TV, which serves the 134th-largest market in the country. In this piece, Trump, Inc. reporters Meg Cramer and Katherine Sullivan tell the story of the Trump campaign's aggressive and exceedingly expensive legal operation.