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An Iowa judge dismissed a lawsuit by President Donald Trump, who sought damages from the Des Moines Register and its former pollster, Ann Selzer.
Selzer, a former longtime pollster for the paper, conducted a presidential poll days before the 2024 election showing Trump trailing then-Vice President Kamala Harris in Iowa, 47% to 44%. The survey turned out to be wildly errant, as Trump won the state 56% to 43%.
The month after Trump won the election, he sued the Register, Selzer, and the paper’s parent company, citing “election interference.”
“There was a perfectly good reason nobody saw this coming: because a three-point lead for Harris in deep-red Iowa was not reality,” the complaint said. “It was election-interfering fiction.”
Iowa District Judge Scott J. Beattie saw the matter differently.
“At its core, the plaintiffs’ petition seeks to stretch both Iowa statutory and common law beyond their current bounds, turning speech that enjoys the highest category of First Amendment protection into a liability,” Beattie wrote.
Beattie went further, stating that even if he accepted Trump’s claims of intentional “election interference,” he would still side with the defendants.
“Even with this assumption, each of the three counts still fails,” he wrote, stating that the lawsuit failed to demonstrate fraud or deception by the defendants.
Selzer was represented in the case by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE.
“We’re pleased that the court recognized what we’ve said all along: This lawsuit was laughable from the beginning and never should have been brought,” reacted FIRE Chief Counsel Bob Corn-Revere, who led Selzer’s defense. “The First Amendment does not allow anyone in government, least of all the president, to punish people under the banner of ‘fake news.’ That may work for him as a campaign slogan, but it is not a thing in the law.”
A spokesperson for Trump’s legal team said the president will appeal the decision.
“President Trump is committed to holding responsible those who traffic in deception and fake news,” the spokesperson said in a statement to Mediaite. “The Des Moines Register and Gannett knowingly ran a phony poll from the now disgraced Democrat pollster Ann Selzer in a[n] unlawful attempt to interfere in the 2024 Presidential Election and to defraud Americans into believing Kamala Harris was winning the state of Iowa and nationwide, mere hours before she lost Iowa and the overall election by huge margins. This scam was designed to damage President Trump’s dominant campaign in the final days of the race. Such fraud cannot be allowed to stand, and President Trump will take his powerful case to the Iowa Supreme Court in order to see it through to a just and winning conclusion.”
Trump has escalated his war on the press since his first term. Last week, he banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House, a move that prompted the outlets to sue. The president has also sued multiple news organizations, including CBS News, ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. CBS and ABC opted to settle.
The post Judge Tosses Trump’s ‘Election Interference’ Lawsuit Against Newspaper and Pollster first appeared on Mediaite.
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