Trump Encouraged Sean Hannity to Go After the New York Times

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8. Trumps attorney in October 2016 tried that to.

NYT said F-off.
More politely, in legalese
Source-https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/us/politics/donald-trump-lawsuit-threat.html

snip--The Times stood by the article on Thursday. ”We stand by the story, which falls clearly into the realm of public service journalism,” Eileen Murphy, a spokeswoman for The Times, said in a statement.

David McCraw, vice president and assistant general counsel of The New York Times, followed up in a letter to Mr. Kasowitz and said that the article would not be retracted.

“The women quoted in our story spoke out on an issue of national importance - indeed, an issue that Mr. Trump himself discussed with the whole nation watching during Sunday night’s presidential debate,” Mr. McCraw wrote. “It would have been a disservice not just to our readers but to democracy itself to silence their voices.”

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