As the mainstream media worked hard to dismantle Trump, a lot of false stories floated around. But the lie that President Trump was somehow in league with Russia to bring down America? That one took off at levels that no other story did — Trump even faced failed impeachment proceedings over it. Now that the story has been proven false many times over, President Trump calls for 18 Pulitzer Prizes related to fake news stories about the alleged Trump-Putin connection to be revoked.

Trump laid into the Washington Post and New York Times specifically for their “shoddy, dubious, and manifestly false reporting” in a statement released Sunday via his Save America PAC.

“I call on the Pulitzer Prize Board to immediately rescind the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting awarded to the staffs of The New York Times and The Washington Post, which was based on false reporting of a non-existent link between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign,” the statement reads. “As has been widely publicized, the coverage was no more than a politically motivated farce which attempted to spin a false narrative that my campaign supposedly colluded with Russia despite a complete lack of evidence underpinning this allegation.”

“When the Board announced the prize, it lauded the recipients ‘for deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nations’ understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the president-elect’s transition team, and his eventual administration,'” Trump’s statement reads. The President continues:

“Specifically, the prize was awarded for a series of articles centered around the now-debunked Russia collusion conspiracy theory. The headlines themselves were extremely sensational and leaned heavily on unsubstantiated anonymous sources. For example, much of the information contained in these articles were credited to ‘people with knowledge,’ ‘current and former officials,’ ‘some senior U.S. officials,’ and other vaguely defined individuals. As a result, the public was deprived of an independent means of assessing their credibility, their potential for political bias, and the source of their knowledge.”

“For two years, these institutions feverishly pushed one Russia story after another and – despite lacking any credible evidence – attempted to persuade the public that my campaign had colluded with the Russian government,” Trump says, pointing out that the reports spread “clear logical fallacies” and “narratives” that had a “clear lack of evidence.

“Contemporaneously with that reporting, numerous conservative news outlets and commentators questioned the legitimacy of these reports, exposing the clear logical fallacies contained in their narratives and pointing to the clear lack of evidence underpinning them,” Trump adds.

Trump points out that the Pulitzer Prize has long been “recognized as a significant achievement in the field of journalism,” and that it is “meant to be bestowed upon well-deserving recipients in recognition of their groundbreaking journalistic efforts.”

Trump says he hopes the Times and Post will return their prizes, but that he does not expect that — so he hopes the Pulitzer Prize Board will step in and rescind the awards.

“Without holding the recipients to such a high standard of accountability, the integrity of the Pulitzer Prize namesake stands to be wholly compromised,” he says. And he’s right.

William Barr is increasingly being proven to be a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The latest example of him betraying President Trump comes from a former U.S. Attorney in Pennsylvania, who sent President Trump a letter claiming that Barr blocked an election investigation in his state.

Former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, William McSwain, told the President that Barr had asked him not to make the public aware of any “election irregularities.” McSwain told the President he “disagreed with that decision,” but that he was just following orders:

“On Election Day and afterwards, our Office received various allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities,” McSwain’s letter tells President Trump. “As part of my responsibilities as U.S. Attorney, I wanted to be transparent with the public and, of course, investigate fully any allegations.”

” Attorney General Barr, however, instructed me not to make any public statements or put out any press releases regarding possible election irregularities,” the letter says. “I was also given a directive to pass along serious allegations to the State Attorney General for investigation – the same State Attorney General who had already declared that you could not win.”

McSwain has definitely prosecuted — and won — election fraud cases in his state related to the 2020 election. But his orders from Barr were to not talk about them. Seems a strange order from the Attorney General, but it’s understandable when one considers that Barr has always been corrupt.

Barr is just another reminder that swamp creatures still persist in government despite Trump’s best efforts to get rid of them. Remember that when voting in 2022 and 2024.

President Trump has clearly had issues with Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other social media platforms’ decision to censor and remove him following his attempts to calm the crowd when peaceful protesters occupied the Capitol on January 6. Trump told everyone to go home, but social media platforms accused im unjustly of inciting violence and removed him to keep Americans safe from him — or so the story goes. Now, President Trump plans to sue Twitter, Facebook, and Google over their “unlawful” censorship of conservatives.

“We’re demanding an end to the shadow-banning, a stop to the silencing, and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing, and canceling that you know so well,” Trump said during a speech at his golf resort in New Jersey on Wednesday. Newsmax reports that President Trump, backed by the America First Policy Institute, filed the lawsuit Wednesday morning in Florida:

Trump has been battling for years with the sites over free speech and censorship, even before his ban.

By using a class-action lawsuit, Trump is filing on behalf of a broad group of people that claim they have been censored because of political bias. 

“We ask the court to impose punitive damages on these social media giants,” said Trump. “We’re going to hold Big Tech very accountable. This is the first of numerous other lawsuits.”

Trump railed about what he called censorship of posts by him and others because of the coronavirus pandemic, including his posts about hydroxychloroquine and other treatments for COVID-19. 

“Liberty is under increased threats and attacks by a lot of different sides,” Trump said. “We are the majority side … social media has given extraordinary power to a group of Big Tech giants that are working with government, the mainstream media, and a large segment of a political party to suppress the views of the American people and they’ve been very successful at that.”

Trump says “thousands of people” want to join his lawsuit against social media companies. More than 192,000 Americans watched Trump’s announcement live — a sign that even though his presidency is over, he remains immensely popular with Americans — Americans who are sick of censorship.