Donald Trump threatens The New York Times: “Wait until you see what I'm going to do with them”

Trump: “You’re going to have so much fun”

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Citation From a October 8, 2024, video uploaded to Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel

BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): How do you fight a legacy media that is once again rigging the informational environment of the election?

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DONALD TRUMP (GUEST): The New York Times is one of the most dishonest of all. I watched this, New York Times, and it's a classic. Wait until you see what I'm going to do with them, you're going to have so much fun.

In 3, 4, 5 days, this is the most dishonest newspaper. They are disgusting. But the radical left, I mean, the radical left, the way they protect -- now you could say, "Wow. That's pretty good the way they do it." But it's, it's so dishonest. It's -- you know, we don't have a free press. We have a very, very corrupt and, you know, hence the name fake news.

The problem with fake news is it's not strong enough. It was a -- I get great credit for a wonderful name at the time, but it's worse than fake. It's corrupt. The press is corrupt. It's really bad in this country. It's really bad.