President Donald Trump early Wednesday said that he might take away news networks’ press credentials if they continue with “negative” coverage.
“The Fake News is working overtime. Just reported that despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake),” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt? Take away credentials?”
President Trump regularly criticizes the major news outlets calling them “fake news.” Also, it’s not his first time to threaten to remove press credentials for several of the major outlets.
During his 2016 presidential campaign, CNN reported that Trump took away the press credentials of several news outlets.
Although the outlets were able to cover his rallies they still were cut off from his press conferences and any special access reporters with credentials normally receive.
Cutting off press credentials would not mean reporters can no longer cover the President.
Trump’s latest threat to take away press credentials comes as result of the report by The Washington Post confirming the claims made by Stormy Daniels’s attorney Michael Avenatti on Tuesday about Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
Avenatti, in a tweet and a report, said that a U.S.-based company controlled by Viktor Vekselberg, a businessman with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, sent Cohen $500,000.
It was not immediately clear how Avenatti would know of any payments made to Cohen. Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has said Cohen paid her $130,000 in October 2016 to stay quiet about a 2006 sexual encounter she had with Trump.
The disclosures could add to pressure on Cohen, whose house, office and hotel room were raided by the FBI a month ago as part of a criminal investigation into the hush payment and other business dealings.
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