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Trump said the outlets wrote negative news to diminish Republicans and a Republican administration. DIRECT_TEXT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 8960

Source: Trump’s Ban of News Organizations Goes Beyond Obama, Biden Actions · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:1a8cf4f45a050ca80c6ee26ee9ab5402a5c98284cfccdd1348938edee9d36586

He said the news organizations “purposely write negative news” in order to “try and diminish the Republicans and a Republican administration.”