Donald Trump suggests he wants US law to limit free
speech in wake of publication of explosive new book
Jan 7 2018
President Donald Trump has hit out at "very weak"
libel laws in the US as he branded an explosive
new book detailing the inner workings of the White
House as "fiction".
Suggesting he would like to see tougher laws on
speech, Mr Trump said that if libel laws "were
strong... you wouldn’t have things like that
happen where you can say whatever comes into your
head" – referring to Michael Wolff’s book Fire
and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
The book has caused a storm of controversy and
has left the President facing questions about
his mental state, with quotes in Fire and Fury –
including from Mr Trump’s former chief strategist
Steve Bannon - suggesting that even those close
to Mr Trump had questioned his capability.
Early on Saturday, Mr Trump wrote a string of
messages on Twitter where he rejected such claims,
saying he was a "very stable genius” whose two
greatest assets are his "mental stability and
being, like, really smart".
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