During a press conference Wednesday at the conclusion of the 2020 Davos Global Economic summit, President Trump cited the Mueller Trump-Russia investigation and Hillary Clinton referring to Jill Stein and Tulsi Gabbard as "Russian agents" as examples of why the Ukraine scandal and impeachment are "fake news," saying: "This is what these people do. They demean and the press plays in because the press largely is their partner."



"If we could straighten out the press in our country, we would have a place that would be so incredible," he said. "The press is so dishonest, so corrupt. I read it all the time. I don't mind a bad story sometimes. But when I do something great or good, let it be written about good. Same thing with other people. The corruption in the media, as I call it the fake news media, is unbelievable."





PRESIDENT TRUMP: And they continued to just go on and on. But this has happened to me with the Russian hoax. I called it the witch hunt. Greatest witch hunt in American history. And the Mueller report. Which exonerated totally. There was no collusion, after all that. Two years, there was no collusion.



And then what happened? Jill Stein from the Green Party gets called a Russian agent by Crooked Hillary. And then Tulsi Gabbard, I don't know either of them, but I know they're not Russian agents, gets called a Russian agent. This is what these people do. They demean and the press plays in because the press largely is their partner and one thing, if we could straighten out the press in our country, we would have a place that would be so incredible. The press is so dishonest, so corrupt. I read it all the time. I don't mind bad stories sometimes. But when I do something great or good, let it be written about good. Same thing with other people. The corruption in the media, as I call it the fake news media, is unbelievable. And hopefully, everybody's going to sort of learn a lesson.



People got Pulitzer prizes for their coverage of me. And it turned out they were totally wrong. Other people, Sean Hannity, Rushbo, a lot of great people, a lot of great writers, they got it right. They didn't get Pulitzer prizes but they got it right. The Russian hoax was a terrible thing. The dossier was a phony deal. Paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC and used in the FISA courts totally illegally. It's a terrible thing that happened. This was a takedown attempt at a sitting president of the United States and we caught them. -- president of the united states and we caught them. So let's see what happens.



REPORTER: Would you consider delaying the State of the Union if the impeachment trial is not done?



PRESIDENT TRUMP: No. I don't see it. A very excellent writer, Bob Woodward, I guess he's doing another book on Trump but this time I'll actually give him an interview, he said, "you're enjoying this, aren't you?" I said, "no, I'm not enjoying this." He said, "you act like you're winning and you won, you're enjoying it." I'm not enjoying it. I'm doing it because it's very important what I'm doing.



I consider what I've done here, with this whole witch hunt from day one, with the insurance policy, with the horrible statements made between struck and -- Strzok and Page and McCabe and Comey who lied to Congress and did so many other things, he lied and the leaked, when I finish, I think this is going to go down as one of the greatest things I've done for our country. These are bad, corrupt people. These are bad people. And very bad for our country. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much.