President Trump criticizes “Fake News Media” for not reporting “record setting $122 million that has been raised for Save America.”
QUICK FACTS:
- Donald J. Trump released an official statement on his website on Tuesday criticizing the mainstream news media for not reporting how his “Save America” campaign had raised over $122 million.
- Trump’s “mammoth political operation entered 2022 with more than $122 million in the bank, giving him an overwhelming edge over any potential rival should he mount another bid for the White House in 2024,” according to The Hill.
- “The Fake News Media has done everything in their power not to report the record setting $122 million that has been raised for Save America and publicly announced last night,” said Trump, adding, “they hate that I broke all records.”
- President Trump went on to knock the New York Times‘ falling viewership, and also to declare that the U.S. “can never be strong again unless we have an honest, open, and fair media.”
- “The people of our Country demand the truth!” Trump concluded.
TRUMP’S FULL STATEMENT:
“The Fake News Media has done everything in their power not to report the record setting $122 million that has been raised for Save America and publicly announced last night, they hate that I broke all records. The Failing New York Times refuses to acknowledge that the power of the Trump endorsement is far stronger today than ever before—it is virtually unblemished! Our Country can never be strong again unless we have an honest, open, and fair media and sadly, our media is largely fake and corrupt. The people of our Country demand the truth!”
BACKGROUND:
- Trump’s political committees raised over $51 million in the second half of 2021 alone, The Hill goes on to report, 98.6% of it coming from small-dollar donors alone.
- “That’s significant in itself because it suggests that the former president may be somewhat insulated from any effort by major donors or party leaders to withhold funding.”
- In 2020, the average weekday print circulation of The New York Times was 374 thousand copies, according to Statistia, marking a significant drop from over 906 thousand a decade earlier.
