The legal woes for Trump continue to haunt him. It’s seeming almost impossible that he’ll ever escape them.
And chaos erupts as Donald Trump announces new earth-shattering legal issues.
President-elect Donald Trump announced plans to file a lawsuit very soon against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer, claiming she skewed pre-election poll results to favor Kamala Harris.
Speaking at a press conference Monday at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump accused Selzer of manipulating data to create a false narrative ahead of the election.
Trump said Selzer is “a very, very good pollster who got me right all the time. Then just before the election, she said I was going to lose by three or four points, and it became the biggest story all over the world because I was going to win Iowa by 20 points.”
Selzer’s final pre-Election Day survey for the Des Moines Register projected Trump trailing Harris by three points. Days later, Trump secured a decisive victory in Iowa, winning the state by thirteen points.
The veteran pollster has denied any wrongdoing. According to Breitbart, Selzer addressed the controversy during a recent panel discussion at the Iowa Press, admitting she remains unsure about what caused the significant discrepancy.
“I’m not here to break any news. If you were hoping that I had landed on exactly why things went wrong, I have not,” Selzer said.
“It does sort of awaken me in the middle of the night, and I think, well, maybe I should check this… But we’ve explored everything. The Des Moines Register, in an unprecedented move for transparency, has put online our cross tabs, our weighting system, and my analysis… We don’t know. Do I wish I knew? Yes, I wish I knew.”
Despite Selzer’s insistence that the poll was legitimate, Trump suggested otherwise, accusing her of intentionally deflating his lead.
“It was interesting the way [Selzer] did it,” Trump said Monday. “Then she brought it down, very smartly, to four a couple of weeks before. And everyone said, ‘Wow, that’s amazing. He’s only up by four points.’ Then she brought it down to where I was down by three or four, whatever number she used.”
The president-elect didn’t hold back his criticism, calling Selzer’s actions fraudulent and “election interference.”
He also pointed out that Selzer retired from polling right after the election was called for Donald Trump — a move he framed as a tacit admission of guilt. “She knows what she was doing, and she then quit,” he remarked.
Trump indicated that his legal actions wouldn’t end with Selzer. He revealed plans to pursue additional lawsuits, including one targeting 60 Minutes.
“We’re filing one on 60 Minutes,” Trump said, referring to the CBS News program’s editing of an interview with Harris. “You know about that, where they took Kamala’s answer, which was a crazy answer, a horrible answer, and they took the whole answer out and they replaced it with something else she said later on.”
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While CBS has acknowledged editing Harris’s interview, the network has yet to release the full transcript.
And as Trump prepares for his return to the White House, the lawsuit against Selzer signals his continued effort to challenge the institutions he believes undermined his campaign.
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