There it is. Setting the stage for TrumpTV vs "the media", his 2017 project. Thanks to the GOP base for letting it all happen.
He has invented and framed his bad guy, his nemesis. He always needs one of them. "I am leaving the race to start TrumpTV, so that I can conquer the lying media that I ran against in 2016". Repubs just keep eating this shit up
Source: The Hill
Donald Trump said Saturday that his true opponent in the general election is the media.
“I’m not running against crooked Hillary, I’m running against the crooked media,” Trump said at a rally in Fairfield, Conn. “That’s what I’m running against, I’m not running against crooked Hillary.”
Trump has repeatedly lashed out at media that he calls “dishonest” over the course of his campaign.
Earlier Saturday, he bashed the New York Times after a report came out in which sources characterized Trump as “sullen” and struggling to recover in light of lagging poll numbers.
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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/291377-trump-im-running-against-media-not-clinton