Only against 'fake news', not press freedom: Trump
February 24, 2017  23:46
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United States President Donald Trump today asserted that he is only against fake news media and not press freedom.

"I'm not against the media, Im not against the press. I dont mind bad stories if I deserve them. And I tell ya, I love good stories, but...I dont get too many of them. But I am only against the fake news, media or press. Fake, fake. They have to leave that word," Trump said in his address to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC.

"I'm against the people that make up stories and make up sources. They shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody's name. Let their name be put out there. Let their name be put out," Trump said as he vented out his anger and frustration with the news coverage that his presidency has been receiving.

He even went ahead and named the media outlets with whom he is upset.

"Just to conclude, I mean, it's a very sensitive topic and they get upset when we expose their false stories. They say that we can't criticise their dishonest coverage because of the First Amendment, you know, they always bring up the First Amendment," he said amidst laughter from the audience.

"I love the First Amendment; nobody loves it better than me. Nobody. I mean, who uses it more than I do? But the First Amendment gives all of us -- it gives it to me, it gives it to you, it gives it to all Americans, the right to speak our minds freely. It gives you the right and me the right to criticise fake news and criticise it strongly," Trump said.

He said many of these groups are part the large media corporations that have their own agenda. -- PTI
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