CNN’s Scott Jennings Says ‘I Don’t Frankly Have a Problem With’ Trump Suing News Organizations

CNN commentator Scott Jennings said he has no issue with the fact that President-elect Donald Trump keeps suing news organizations.

Trump sued The Des Moines Register this week over a wayward pre-election poll conducted by Ann Selzer. That poll showed him behind Vice President Kamala Harris by three points in Iowa, which he ultimately won by 13. In addition, the president-elect is suing Selzer, her polling firm, and the paper’s parent company Gannett.

He is also suing CBS over a 60 Minutes interview with Harris in a case that some legal experts have deemed “frivolous and dangerous.” Moreover, Trump recently settled a defamation lawsuit with ABC, and the network agreed to apologize to Trump and give $15 million toward his presidential library after George Stephanopoulos claimed Trump had been found liable for “rape.” Last year in New York, Trump was found liable for sexual assault by a civil jury, which declined to find him liable for rape. The judge in the case, however, said there is little meaningful difference.

On Tuesday’s CNN NewsNight, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen explained that Trump does not have to win such lawsuits because the costs associated with them can have a chilling effect. He predicted that the Register will eventually settle.

“Not only does Donald Trump have money, he has money with the RNC,” Cohen said. “He has money with his super PACS and his money has money. Look at all of the tech billionaires that are around him now. There is an indefinite amount of money. And I believe wholeheartedly that The Des Moines Register, very much like ABC Disney, is going to capitulate. And I believe that Donald Trump has actually figured out a way how to change the way that media deals with issues.”

Host Abby Phillip turned to Jennings to ask, “Are you worried at all about this, Scott? Just where it could go… I mean, if he’s creating precedent, it’s for everybody.”

Implied in Phillip’s question was the idea that CNN could be next in Trump’s crosshairs.

Jennings replied:

I think one of the reasons Republicans are cheering on this muscular attitude from Trump and pushing back against some of this is because Republicans feel like, constantly, media organizations, especially in the throes of campaigns, work overtime to create false narratives that may shape the contours of the election.

Look what happened when this poll came out in Iowa. The entire English-speaking world was talking about the gold standard pollster, and Harris has this momentum. And ultimately, what we were told was complete garbage. And if you talked to pollsters at the time, they would’ve told you, “This is not real. This methodology is not good anymore.” But that’s not what people chose to run with because it fit what most people in the press wanted the narrative to be.

So, he’s pushing back on that. I don’t frankly have a problem with it. And if they capitulate, it’s because they don’t wanna go through the discovery and what that might show.

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