CNN, like other major news outlets, uses a third-party polling firm to conduct opinion surveys. In a bracing riposte, the network’s general counsel, David Vigilante, rejected the Trump campaign’s request. Mr. Romney went on to lose. But Mr. Trump’s demonization of the news media has been more relentless and widespread than anything unleashed by the Romney team. The legal threat against CNN coincided with a highly unusual dynamic unfolding in recent weeks between Mr. Trump and One America News, a conservative cable network that the president has latched onto for its obvious pro-Trump viewpoint.

Source: New York Times June 10, 2020 23:37 UTC