{"id":134576,"date":"2024-12-16T23:31:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T23:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/donald-trump-apparently-thinks-bad-polling-is-illegal\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T23:31:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T23:31:19","slug":"donald-trump-apparently-thinks-bad-polling-is-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/16\/donald-trump-apparently-thinks-bad-polling-is-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Apparently Thinks Bad Polling Is Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">What can we anticipate of <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s second time period, in addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/trump-reportedly-plans-to-let-ice-agents-arrest-immigrants-at-schools-hospitals-weddings-funerals?srsltid=AfmBOoqOSot5-tKH63_20yfOAWAUcU33KHVIMKXa3CioeXm1Q6rlOndh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mass<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/donald-trump-says-no-price-tag-will-stop-mass-deportation?srsltid=AfmBOookLMwI3Lo25YWZnPe48kQLSbvqXYMWQ-GB9jkvQ7A4ihcb8tGe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deportations<\/a>, <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/12\/us\/politics\/trump-pardons-deportations-time-magazine-interview.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/12\/us\/politics\/trump-pardons-deportations-time-magazine-interview.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/12\/us\/politics\/trump-pardons-deportations-time-magazine-interview.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 6 pardons<\/a>, a \u201c<a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7201565\/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump-transcript\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/time.com\/7201565\/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump-transcript\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7201565\/person-of-the-year-2024-donald-trump-transcript\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">virtual closure of [the] Department of Education<\/a>,\u201d and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-discuss-ending-childhood-vaccination-programs-with-rfk-jr-2024-12-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">potential finish to some lifesaving childhood vaccines<\/a>? A warfare on the media, it will appear!<\/p>\n<p>During a press convention on Monday, Trump was requested if he deliberate to file extra defamation lawsuits following the one he settled with ABC News over the weekend, which resulted within the community reducing a $15 million verify. He <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/trump-media-iowa-pollster-lawsuit-1236204684\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/trump-media-iowa-pollster-lawsuit-1236204684\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/trump-media-iowa-pollster-lawsuit-1236204684\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">responded<\/a> that that&#8217;s completely the plan, <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/trump-media-iowa-pollster-lawsuit-1236204684\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/trump-media-iowa-pollster-lawsuit-1236204684\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/12\/trump-media-iowa-pollster-lawsuit-1236204684\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saying<\/a>, \u201cWe have to straighten out our press. Our press is very corrupt, almost as corrupt as our elections.\u201d Then he <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/atrupar.com\/post\/3ldgtcf563c22\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/atrupar.com\/post\/3ldgtcf563c22&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/atrupar.com\/post\/3ldgtcf563c22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stated<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m gonna be bringing one against the people in Iowa, their newspaper, which had a very, very good pollster, who got me right all the time. And then just before the election, she said I was gonna lose by three or four points.\u201d The pollster in query is <strong>Ann Selzer,<\/strong> who has completed work for <em>The<\/em> <em>Des Moines Register<\/em> for years and who revealed a ballot shortly earlier than the 2024 election that confirmed Vice President <strong>Kamala Harris<\/strong> with a three-point lead over Trump in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Of course, as we now know, Trump gained the state by simply over 13 factors, that means Selzer acquired it very, very mistaken. Still, it\u2019s not clear that incorrectly predicting the outcomes of the election is against the law. In reality, Selzer presumably very a lot needs she had gotten it proper, quite than so embarrassingly <em>not proper.<\/em> Speaking to PBS final week, the Iowa pollster <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/accusing-crime-pollster-ann-selzer-203749632.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGimLV9o6Jz_2vNudYEidTouMaO4SpIU43XJJX72rPEUG-ECL20y-SOR83DyaGxryyzEeQxyjOp6_Gy0Ao3DWbuAei7DQs170DSQQwcLJAKY0xy8RPyDdbzYL-0wPVj9lN44EFhFxoB7m996xaLs_X6NOeyLMTVwxcCXzErfJ6v-\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/accusing-crime-pollster-ann-selzer-203749632.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGimLV9o6Jz_2vNudYEidTouMaO4SpIU43XJJX72rPEUG-ECL20y-SOR83DyaGxryyzEeQxyjOp6_Gy0Ao3DWbuAei7DQs170DSQQwcLJAKY0xy8RPyDdbzYL-0wPVj9lN44EFhFxoB7m996xaLs_X6NOeyLMTVwxcCXzErfJ6v-&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/accusing-crime-pollster-ann-selzer-203749632.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGimLV9o6Jz_2vNudYEidTouMaO4SpIU43XJJX72rPEUG-ECL20y-SOR83DyaGxryyzEeQxyjOp6_Gy0Ao3DWbuAei7DQs170DSQQwcLJAKY0xy8RPyDdbzYL-0wPVj9lN44EFhFxoB7m996xaLs_X6NOeyLMTVwxcCXzErfJ6v-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stated<\/a>: \u201cI am mystified about what motivation anybody thinks I had and would act on in such a public poll. I don\u2019t understand it. And the allegations I take very seriously. They\u2019re saying that this was election interference, which is a crime\u2026. To suggest without a single shred of evidence that I was in cahoots with somebody, I was being paid by somebody\u2014it\u2019s all just kind of\u2026it\u2019s hard to pay too much attention to it except that they are accusing me of a crime.\u201d She additionally famous that she believed her ballot placing Harris forward of Trump \u201ccould actually energize and activate Republican voters\u201d into popping out in droves for the ex-president. Selzer <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/17\/iowa-pollster-j-ann-selzer-quits\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/17\/iowa-pollster-j-ann-selzer-quits&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/nov\/17\/iowa-pollster-j-ann-selzer-quits\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">introduced<\/a> final month that she was quitting public opinion polling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Trump\u2019s vow to file additional fits towards the media comes simply days after ABC News introduced that it will pay $15 million to settle a defamation go well with introduced towards the community by the previous president. In that case, Trump had claimed he was defamed by anchor <strong>George Stephanopoulos,<\/strong> who stated in an interview that Trump was discovered chargeable for rape. Rather, a jury discovered him chargeable for sexual abuse towards author <strong>E. Jean Carroll,<\/strong> though the decide presiding over the case later <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/aug\/07\/donald-trump-rape-language-e-jean-carroll\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/aug\/07\/donald-trump-rape-language-e-jean-carroll&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/aug\/07\/donald-trump-rape-language-e-jean-carroll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> in a <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/carroll-trump-counterclaim-dismissed.pdf\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/carroll-trump-counterclaim-dismissed.pdf&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/carroll-trump-counterclaim-dismissed.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">submitting<\/a>: \u201c\u2026the jury\u2019s finding that Mr. Trump \u2018sexually abused\u2019 Ms. Carroll implicitly determined that he forcibly penetrated her digitally \u2013 in other words, that Mr. Trump in fact did \u2018rape\u2019 Ms. Carroll as that term commonly is used and understood in contexts outside of the New York Penal Law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Critics of ABC\u2019s determination to settle worry that it&#8217;s going to result in extra lawsuits towards the media by an emboldened Trump. (As Trump famous throughout Monday&#8217;s press convention, he presently has pending fits towards CBS News, reporter <strong>Bob Woodward,<\/strong> and the Pulitzer board.) On X, former Obama adviser <strong>David Axelrod<\/strong> <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/davidaxelrod\/status\/1868707901298426223?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/x.com\/davidaxelrod\/status\/1868707901298426223?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/davidaxelrod\/status\/1868707901298426223?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>: \u201cNow Trump says he\u2019s suing the <em>Des Moines Register<\/em> because their poll understated his support; <em>60 Minutes<\/em> because of their editing of @KamalaHarris interview; the Pulitzer committee for honoring @nytimes coverage of Russian election interference. Welcome to Hungary, folks!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] What can we anticipate of Donald Trump\u2019s second time period, in addition to mass deportations, January 6 pardons, a \u201cvirtual closure of [the] Department of Education,\u201d and a potential finish to some lifesaving childhood vaccines? A warfare on the media, it will appear! During a press convention on Monday, Trump was requested if he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[5860,2816,482,1791,6992,784,204],"class_list":{"0":"post-134576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity-gossip","8":"tag-apparently","9":"tag-bad","10":"tag-donald","11":"tag-illegal","12":"tag-polling","13":"tag-thinks","14":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}