Lesley Stahl: Trump Said He Wants to ‘Discredit’ the Media ‘So No One Will Believe’ Negative Stories (Video)
“60 Minutes” reporter Lesley Stahl raised some eyebrows at the annual Deadline Club Awards dinner on Monday, telling PBS anchor Judy Woodruff that President Donald Trump once admitted to her that his whole rationale for attacking the media was to help him deflect bad press.
“He said, ‘You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all, so when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you,'” Stahl said. “He said that. So put that in your head for a minute.”
Stahl said the moment occurred at his office in Manhattan’s Trump Tower shortly after the billionaire won the 2016 presidential election.