Let me get this straight, because the FAKE NEWS won’t tell you the right way. I took CNN out of the pool for the United Nations trip — a trip I owned, by the way, biggest speech at the UNGA, they were chanting my name, and CNN was getting NOTHING, because CNN is a network of very low-rated people who treat me terribly. Very fair. Very legal. And then all five networks — Fox, ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, all together, like a little club, a little cartel — stopped covering the PRESIDENT of the United States. For coverage. Of me. And now the Justice Department is looking into it, and they should, because that was the most RIGGED, coordinated, beautiful-to-watch-but-also-illegal boycott since boycotts existed.
Emily Covington, very good spokeswoman, by the way, said it perfectly, three sentences, perfect, better than anything I could have written and I write perfect: members of the television press pool have boycotted, group boycotts among commercial competitors can violate the Sherman Act, the Antitrust Division is simply investigating. SIMPLY. I always said it. I said it FIRST, before anyone, before the newspapers, before the Justice Department even — I told people, “watch, they’ll collude,” and here they are, colluding, in broad daylight, very stupidly, on the record. My uncle, the great MIT professor, he understood collusion, he would have loved this case, tremendous mind, much smarter than the people at these networks, who are not smart, believe me, I know smart, I HAVE smart.
And the emails — they want the emails, and they should get the emails, because what are they hiding? Probably nothing. Probably. But we’re going to look, and it’s going to be TREMENDOUS.
Now here’s the part that’s very unfair, and I never complain, I never do, but: there’s a judge — a federal judge, RIGGED obviously, they’re all rigged, the whole thing — who a little while back said CNN, MS NOW and Politico, three outlets nobody watches, should be let back into the White House. TEMPORARY. Which means nothing. Which means we win later. But in the meantime these three, who I BANNED, completely legally, because they lie, they lie like dogs, very dishonest dogs — they’re suing us, and CNN and Politico are not even on the travel pool anymore, which is SCHEDULING, tremendous scheduling, nothing to do with anything, they would have had to get on the plane, and there was no room, a lot of room actually, but no room for them, very unfair to me.
And the SAME WEEK the judge is deciding whether that ban survives — and it will survive, we have the best lawyers, the absolute best, big tough lawyers with tears in their eyes saying “Sir, Sir, this is the strongest ban we’ve ever seen” — the same week, the Antitrust Division sends out these letters. Perfect timing. Not that I had anything to do with it. I had NOTHING to do with it. I don’t even know what the Sherman Act is, honestly, I know it’s a very strong Act, probably the strongest, and if the networks violated it, they violated it, and if they didn’t, this is still the most unfair treatment of a president in the history of presidents, maybe in the history of anything.
Look at what they did to me in July — ABC and NBC, they wouldn’t even CARRY my speech, the beautiful speech, on election fraud, which was totally proven, and people said “Sir, take their licenses,” big tough people, and they were RIGHT, and I said it then and I’m saying it now: unfavorable coverage of yours truly is very close to treason, very close, some people say over the line, I say right about on the line, perfect line.
So the Justice Department is investigating, the judge is deciding, the ban is WINNING, the pool is a mess, CNN is FAKE, and everyone — everyone, the smart people, the best people, all of them — is saying this is the biggest victory for press freedom in the history of press freedom. Maybe bigger. We’ll see what happens. But I will tell you this, and I don’t say it about me, I say it about the American people, who I love, tremendous people, the farmers, the workers — this is about THEM. It’s about them. It’s about me, but also them, mostly them, a very large them, but also me, the most them, actually. Thank you.