BREAKING: President Trump Sues Major Newspaper and Pollster

Following a big win in his defamation lawsuit against ABC News, President Donald Trump is now taking a newspaper and pollster to court over their wildly incorrect prediction of last month’s election results.

As The Hill reported:

President-elect Trump sued the Des Moines Register and pollster J. Ann Selzer on Monday over a poll released just before Election Day indicating Vice President Harris had a sizable lead in Iowa.

The poll found Harris leading Trump in Iowa by 3 percentage points days before Trump won the state by 14 percentage points as voters sent him back to the White House.

Trump’s lawsuit, which was filed in Iowa state court in Polk County, accuses the outlet and pollster of violating Iowa’s consumer fraud laws by engaging in deception.

“Selzer’s polling ‘miss’ was not an astonishing coincidence — it was intentional,” the complaint states.

The lawsuit asks for an unspecified amount of damages and an order preventing the pollster from “releasing any further deceptive polls” and compelling them to disclose information they relied upon in publishing the November survey.

Trump’s latest lawsuit has already sparked considerable social media discussion:

Trump sues Des Moines Register, top pollster for 'brazen election interference,' fraud over Harris poll

The Trump folks obviously have some inside information or tip that this was not on the up and up. The pollster was getting ready to retire and perhaps she caught an…

— Randy Mott (@randymot4) December 17, 2024

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump will be SUING media outlets such as the Des Moines register and CBS / 60 Minutes for interfering in the election

GOOD! 🔥

60 Minutes infamously chopped and edited Kamala’s answers to make her sound coherent. pic.twitter.com/UbzkIJ4DI4

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 16, 2024

🚨A glum Jake Tapper is upset about the Trump $15M settlement in lawsuit against ABC, and his suing other media outlets:

“This is wildly ridiculous."

Today, Trump mentioned The Des Moines Register, 60 Minutes, Bob Woodward and Russiagate reporters.

Legacy media is finally… pic.twitter.com/ZJ7mE8q4Go

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 17, 2024

Fox News provided additional coverage:

Trump attorneys said Selzer’s prediction of Harris’ three point lead in “deep-red Iowa was not reality, it was election-interfering fiction.”

Trump attorneys said Selzer had “prided herself on a mainstream reputation for accuracy despite several far less publicized egregious polling misses in favor of Democrats” and said she “would have the public believe it was merely a coincidence that one of the worst polling misses of her career came just days before the most consequential election in memory, was leaked and happened to go against the Republican candidate.”

“The Harris Poll was no ‘miss’ but rather an attempt to influence the outcome of the 2024 Presidential Election,” the lawsuit states, adding that “defendants and their cohorts in the Democrat Party hoped that the Harris Poll would create a false narrative of inevitability for Harris in the final week of the 2024 Presidential Election.”

“Instead, the November 5 election was a monumental victory for President Trump in both the Electoral College and the Popular Vote, an overwhelming mandate for his America First principles, and the consignment of the radical socialist agenda to the dustbin of history.”

The lawsuit notes that Selzer, after more than 35 years in the industry, “retired in disgrace from polling less than two weeks after this embarrassing rout.”

Trump lawyers argued that “left-wing pollsters have attempted to influence electoral outcomes through manipulated polls that have unacceptable error rates and are not grounded in widely accepted polling methodologies.”

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Here’s an example of MSNBC using misleading poll numbers to shape its anti-Trump narrative:

Rachel Maddow reports on the "shock result" of the Des Moines Register poll showing Kamala Harris now leading Donald Trump in deep-red Iowa.

Maddow reports on why this poll is the "gold standard" and what it could mean for other states. pic.twitter.com/x0Dknza7Le

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 4, 2024