Following a big win in his defamation lawsuit against ABC News, President Donald Trump is now taking a newspaper and pollster to court over their wildly incorrect prediction of last month’s election results. As The Hill reported: President-elect Trump sued the Des Moines Register and pollster J. Ann Selzer on Monday over a poll released just before Election Day indicating Vice President Harris had a sizable lead in Iowa. The poll found Harris leading Trump in Iowa by 3 percentage points days before Trump won the state by 14 percentage points as voters sent him back to the White House. Trump’s lawsuit, which was filed in Iowa state court in Polk County, accuses the outlet and pollster of violating Iowa’s consumer fraud laws by engaging in deception. “Selzer’s polling ‘miss’ was not an astonishing coincidence — it was intentional,” the complaint states. The lawsuit asks for an unspecified amount of damages and an order preventing the pollster from “releasing any further deceptive polls” and compelling them to disclose information they relied upon in publishing the November survey. Trump’s latest lawsuit has already sparked considerable social media discussion: Trump sues Des Moines Register, top pollster for ‘brazen election interference,’ fraud over Harris poll The Trump folks obviously have some inside information or tip that this was not on the up and up. The pollster was getting ready to retire and perhaps she caught an… — Randy Mott (@randymot4) December 17, 2024 JUST IN: President Trump will be SUING media outlets such as the Des Moines register and CBS / 60 Minutes for interfering in the election GOOD! 60 Minutes infamously chopped and edited Kamala’s answers to make her sound coherent. pic.twitter.com/UbzkIJ4DI4 — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 16, 2024 A glum Jake Tapper is upset about the Trump $15M settlement in lawsuit against ABC, and his suing other media outlets: “This is wildly ridiculous.” Today, Trump mentioned The Des Moines Register, 60 Minutes, Bob Woodward and Russiagate reporters. Legacy media is finally… pic.twitter.com/ZJ7mE8q4Go — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 17, 2024 Fox News provided additional coverage: Trump attorneys said Selzer’s prediction of Harris’ three point lead in “deep-red Iowa was not reality, it was election-interfering fiction.” Trump attorneys said Selzer had “prided herself on a mainstream reputation for accuracy despite several far less publicized egregious polling misses in favor of Democrats” and said she “would have the public believe it was merely a coincidence that one of the worst polling misses of her career came just days before the most consequential election in memory, was leaked and happened to go against the Republican candidate.” “The Harris Poll was no ‘miss’ but rather an attempt to influence the outcome of the 2024 Presidential Election,” the lawsuit states, adding that “defendants and their cohorts in the Democrat Party hoped that the Harris Poll would create a false narrative of inevitability for Harris in the final week of the 2024 Presidential Election.” “Instead, the November 5 election was a monumental victory for President Trump in both the Electoral College and the Popular Vote, an overwhelming mandate for his America First principles, and the consignment of the radical socialist agenda to the dustbin of history.” The lawsuit notes that Selzer, after more than 35 years in the industry, “retired in disgrace from polling less than two weeks after this embarrassing rout.” Trump lawyers argued that “left-wing pollsters have attempted to influence electoral outcomes through manipulated polls that have unacceptable error rates and are not grounded in widely accepted polling methodologies.” Here’s an example of MSNBC using misleading poll numbers to shape its anti-Trump narrative: Rachel Maddow reports on the “shock result” of the Des Moines Register poll showing Kamala Harris now leading Donald Trump in deep-red Iowa. Maddow reports on why this poll is the “gold standard” and what it could mean for other states. pic.twitter.com/x0Dknza7Le — MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 4, 2024

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Madison, Wisconsin, police are looking into a possible manifesto or letter written by the 15-year-old female shooter who killed a classmate and a teacher and wounded several others before turning the gun on herself at Abundant Life Christian School (ALCS) on Monday morning. Police revealed the identity of the shooter, who will not be named per Daily Wire policy, during a Monday night press conference. The teen girl used a handgun that police recovered from the scene and was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes told CNN on Tuesday that authorities “have been made aware of a manifesto … or some type of letter that’s been posted by someone who alleged to be her friend.” “We haven’t been able to locate that person yet, but that’s something we’re going to work on today,” Barnes added. Social media posts have circulated claiming to reveal what the shooter wrote before the fatal shootings, but so far, police have not confirmed the authenticity of any alleged manifesto. The police chief also addressed unsubstantiated claims that have spread on social media claiming that the shooter identified as transgender. Barnes said on Monday night that authorities “don’t know” whether the shooter “was transgender or not.” “And quite frankly, I don’t think that’s even important,” he said. “I don’t think that’s important at all. I don’t think that whatever happened today has anything to do with how she or he or they may have wanted to identify and I wish people would kind of leave their own personal biases out of this.” “So whether or not she was, he was, they were transgender — it’s something that may come out later, but for what we’re doing right now today, literally eight hours after a mass shooting in a school in Madison, it is of no consequence at this time,” the chief added. “And so I would encourage people to be responsible with your social media.” ALCS was beginning its last week before Christmas break. The school offers education for students from kindergarten through 12th grade. Police searched the home of the shooter’s parents with their consent on Monday evening, FOX’s Madison affiliate WMSN reported. “We’ll also be looking through her effects – if she had a computer or cell phone – to see if there are any transmissions between her and someone else,” Barnes added. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE The chief said the parents “are fully cooperating,” and there is “no reason to believe that they have committed a crime at this time.” The first 911 call was made by a second-grader at the school around 10:57 a.m. after the shooter opened fire in a classroom during study hall, and police responded within minutes. Upon entering the school, officers found that the shooter was already dead and immediately began life-saving efforts on the wounded. Six people, including a teacher, were transported to area hospitals with injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening. Two of the victims have been released from the hospital. A teacher and a teenage student were pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting. Authorities have not revealed the identities of the victims as they wait for family members to be informed first. Pastor Chris Dolson, who spoke at a vigil on Monday night, said that one of the dead was a substitute teacher who came to work after another teacher called in sick, CBS News reported.

A judge on Monday approved the examination of George Floyd’s heart tissue and bodily fluids, offering a potential legal avenue for appeal in the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was found guilty in the contentious and highly-publicized case concerning the death of George Floyd and is currently serving a 20-plus year sentence for second-degree murder. Chauvin’s new defense attorney, Robert Meyers, filed a motion last week to explore samples taken during Floyd’s autopsy on the basis that Chauvin was given “ineffective assistance of counsel” under his last attorney, Eric Nelson. Meyers noted that Dr. William Schaetzel, a Kansas-based forensic pathologist, told Nelson before conviction that he believed Floyd died from heart failure due to an excessive release of catecholamines, not from Chauvin’s actions, ABC5 reported. However, Nelson never discussed this with Chauvin. “Nelson provided ineffective assistance of counsel to Mr. Chauvin by failing to consult with him on this issue,” Judge Paul Magnuson agreed. JUST IN: In new court ruling, Derek Chauvin will be allowed to test heart tissue of George Floyd. pic.twitter.com/51Kzl1qoIP — Liz Collin (@lizcollin) December 16, 2024 Floyd, who suffered from heart disease and hypertension and had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system at the time of his death, did not die until he was at a nearby hospital. Chauvin, who has already been stabbed in prison, has been trying to appeal the conviction. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE In 2023, attorney William Mohrman filed an appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing, in part, that Chauvin was denied the right to a fair trial. However, the high court refused to hear the appeal. “Under the Sixth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution, every criminal defendant is guaranteed a right to a fair trial,” Mohrman told The Daily Wire at the time. “And part of that fair trial-right is not to be tried in a location where the jurors have either been exposed to extensive pre-trial publicity, or there has been such community outrage and the like that the jurors, before they even were impaneled before the trial, would have concluded the defendant’s guilty, or would have been pressured into rendering a guilty verdict.” Mohrman also suggested that jurors were scared not to convict. “During the questioning, I would say the vast majority — not only the vast majority, probably 75 to 80 percent of the jurors — expressed concerns for their own personal safety as a result of being impaneled on the jury,” he said. “Virtually every juror had obviously heard about the case, knew about the riots, had seen the videos that were taken when George Floyd was arrested; virtually all the jurors have seen that, so it’s difficult in a case like that to impanel the jury where the jurors haven’t formed firm conclusions before the trial even starts.” Chauvin has also been convicted of a federal civil rights violation, for which he is serving over 20 years concurrently with his state sentence. Related: Derek Chauvin Stabbed In Prison, ‘Life-Saving Measures’ Administered: Report

A new analysis from a UK-based think tank shows that many major media outlets have credulously parroted flawed figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health. The Henry Jackson Society (HJS) released a 40-page report last week following a review of Gaza health ministry figures and how that data has appeared in hundreds of news reports across four months of the war between Israel and the terror group Hamas. While often given credence in media reports, HJS’s analysis of health ministry data has found the numbers to contain “widespread inaccuracies and distortion.” HJS analyzed nearly 1,400 news reports from February through May of this year that included a reference to the war’s death toll as counted by the Gaza Ministry of Health, which is controlled by Hamas. The review included reports from major outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, CNN, the BBC, Reuters, The Associated Press, and the Australian ABC. Over the course of the review, HJS found that the media overwhelmingly favored reporting Ministry of Health figures over those put out by the Israeli government. Just 5% of the reports analyzed cited Israeli figures, while 98% of the reports cited fatality numbers put out by the Hamas-run health department. “In 19% of media reports examined, numbers provided by Hamas-run institutions were used without citing any source, thereby suggesting those figures were undisputed,” HJS said. “Furthermore, fewer than one in every 50 articles mentioned that the figures provided by the MoH were unverifiable or controversial. Strikingly, the Israeli statistics had their credibility questioned in half of the few articles that incorporated them.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE In 84% of the reports, the fatality number cited did not differentiate between combatant and civilian deaths, potentially giving a flawed perception of the state of the war. Hamas’ figures should be viewed skeptically given that the terror group is a direct participant in the war and thus has a deep interest in how it is reported, according to HJS. Beyond the conflict of interest, an HJS review found deep flaws within the health ministry data that have led to potentially severe overcounting of civilian fatality numbers. “Our investigation found numerous statistical anomalies in the MoH’s fatality lists, including significant daily increases in the reported deaths of women and children that are mathematically impossible,” the report states. “Furthermore, the inclusion of natural deaths in war-related fatality counts, the erroneous categorisation of men as women and children, and the failure to account for deaths caused by internal Palestinian violence or misfired rockets from Gaza have all contributed to inflated and misleading numbers.”