「匿名の情報源」用いたメディアなどを訴える意向　トランプ氏

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】ドナルド・トランプ米大統領は２６日、自身に批判的な新たな暴露本に激怒し、匿名の情報源を用いた著者やメディアを訴える意向を示した。（写真はドナルド・トランプ米大統領）
　トランプ氏はニューヨークの不動産王から大統領に上り詰める過程で、提訴を常とう手段としてきたが、今回は書籍やニュース記事で匿名の情報源を使う慣行を標的にしている。
　トランプ氏は、米国の主流メディアを常に「フェイクニュース」メディアと呼び、侮蔑していることでも知られる。
　今回の表明は、「炎と怒り──トランプ政権の内幕」で知られるジャーナリストのマイケル・ウォルフ氏の新たな暴露本の出版を受けたもの。
　同書は、昨年夏の選挙集会中に起きた暗殺未遂事件後のトランプ氏は「精神的に崩壊寸前だったとみられる」と指摘。また、トランプ氏の私邸「マーアーラゴ」筋の話として、同氏は妻のメラニア氏に嫌悪されているとも記しており、トランプ氏と同政権は激怒している。
　トランプ氏はＳＮＳへの投稿で、政権復帰後最初の１か月は大成功を収めたと述べた後、匿名の情報源を用いた「偽の本や記事」が出回っていると主張。
　「いずれ、こうした不誠実な著者や出版社を訴えて」匿名の情報源が実在するかどうかを確かめる意向を示した上で、そうした情報源の「大部分は存在しない」と断言した。
　さらに、「これらはでっち上げられた中傷的なフィクションだ。この露骨な不誠実さには大きな代償が支払われるべきだ。私は祖国のために尽くす。もしかしたら素晴らしい新法を制定するかもしれない！！！」と続けている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/02/27-17:01）

US President Donald Trump, furious over a disparaging new tell-all book about him, threatened Wednesday to sue authors and media outlets that use anonymous sources.
Trump has made suing people an integral part of his brand as he made his way up from New York real estate mogul to the US presidency twice, and this time he is taking aim at the common practice of books and news stories using unnamed sources.
Trump is also famously contemptuous of mainstream media in America, which he routinely labels the fake news media.
His latest move comes after the publication of a new expose by journalist Michael Wolff that has Trump and his team livid.
Among other assertions the book says that after surviving an assassination attempt last summer during the election campaign, Trump seemed possibly on the verge of cracking, unable to finish sentences and flying into rages that were stunning even for the famously thin-skinned former reality TV star.
In a social media post Trump said that after what he called his wildly successful first month back in power, Fake books and stories with anonymous sources are coming out and at some point I am going to sue some of these dishonest authors and book publishers to determine if these sources exist, which they largely do not.
Trump added: They are made up, defamatory fiction, and a big price should be paid for this blatant dishonesty. I'll do it as a service to our Country. Who knows, maybe we will create some NICE NEW LAW!!!
The new book by Wolff -- he had a bestseller that came out in 2018 called Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House -- among other bombshell claims also quotes a Mar-a-Lago source as saying Trump's wife Melania hates him.
The Trump White House is skirmishing early and often with the news media as the president presses relentlessly his hard-right agenda targeting immigrants and gutting the federal government through the free-wheeling work of billionaire Elon Musk, an adviser with an outsize role in Trump's so far very busy second term.
On Tuesday the administration broke decades of tradition by announcing that the White House itself would pick which media get close access to the president in confined quarters like the Oval Office as part of what is known as a press pool.
Until now an independent association of American media organizations covering the White House made this selection.