CNN’s Scott Jennings explained why he doesn’t have a problem with President-elect Donald J. Trump’s lawsuits against media organizations that have spent years peddling lies and smears about him.

Panic is rapidly spreading throughout the fake news industry after the incoming president sued the Des Moines Register over a pre-election poll claiming that Kamala Harris had surged into a late lead in Iowa, a state he ended up winning by double digits.

Trump’s lawsuit against the paper and its vaunted former pollster Ann Selzer comes on the heels of him reaching a $16 million settlement with ABC News and star anchor George Stephanopoulos over his repeated claims that he’d been found “liable for rape” a gross distortion of a jury verdict.

On Tuesday’s edition of “CNN NewsNight” where the legal expertise of disbarred ex-lawyer and convicted felon Michael Cohen was drawn on, the conservative commentator suggested that the lawsuits are a form of accountability for a media that has abandoned all journalistic principles to wage a propaganda war on Trump.

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“Are you worried at all about this, Scott?” CNN host Abby Phillip asked, seemingly concerned that the anti-Trump cable “news” network could be next. “Just where it could go… I mean, if he’s creating a precedent, it’s for everybody.”

Jennings replied, “I think one of the reasons Republicans are cheering on this muscular attitude from Trump and pushing back against some of this is because Republicans feel like, constantly, media organizations, especially in the throes of campaigns, work overtime to create false narratives that may shape the contours of the election.”

“Look what happened when this poll came out in Iowa,” he continued. “The entire English-speaking world was talking about the gold standard pollster, and Harris has this momentum, and ultimately, what we were told was complete garbage. And if you talked to pollsters at the time, they would’ve told you, ‘This is not real, this methodology is not good anymore,’ but that’s not what people chose to run with because it fit what most people in the press wanted the narrative to be.”

“So, he’s pushing back on that. I don’t frankly have a problem with it, and if they capitulate, it’s because they don’t wanna go through the discovery and what that might show,” Jennings said.

In addition to the Des Moines Register and Selzer, Trump is also suing CBS over “60 Minutes” deceptively editing its pre-election interview with Harris.

“Not only does Donald Trump have money, he has money with the RNC,” Cohen said earlier in the segment. “He has money with his super PACS and his money has money. Look at all of the tech billionaires that are around him now, there is an indefinite amount of money, and I believe wholeheartedly that The Des Moines Register, very much like ABC Disney, is going to capitulate and I believe that Donald Trump has actually figured out a way how to change the way that media deals with issues.”

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