Opinion: By mixing up the real with the fake threats, Trump keeps everybody on edge, wondering if this time he’ll follow through. The constant stream of threats enslaves the news media to Trump, and their reports terrify his targets
a Daily Beast reporter he could expect a $500 million libel suit if he published a story, Cohen went on to imply violence. “I’m warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?” Cohen said to the reporter.has written, is that a president possesses the coercive power to make good on the intimidating words that a businessman does not.
While President Trump has consummated some of his dire warnings—instituting tariffs, closing the government over the border wall, withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and canceling the Iran nuclear deal—most but not all of his saber-rattling is empty. By mixing up the real with the fake threats, Trump keeps everybody on edge, wondering if this time he’ll follow through. The constant stream of threats enslaves the news media to Trump, and their reports terrify his targets.
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