Donald Trump has made threats of litigation a regular part of his White House campaign. | AP Photo/Gerald Herbert Trump wants to make it easier to successfully sue the media

Donald Trump told a Miami reporter on Sunday that he would like U.S. laws governing the media to more closely match those in Great Britain, where Trump said it is easier to successfully sue such outlets.

“Well, in England they have a system where you can actually sue if someone says something wrong. Our press is allowed to say whatever they want and get away with it,” Trump told Miami’s CBS affiliate in an interview published Sunday. “I’m a big believer, tremendous believer of the freedom of the press. Nobody believes it stronger than me, but if they make terrible, terrible mistakes and those mistakes are made on purpose to injure people.”


The Republican presidential nominee has made threats of litigation a regular part of his White House campaign, most recently suggesting that he would sue the various women who have accused him of sexually assaulting them. He has denied all the allegations against him and chalked up the array of negative reporting about him to a vast conspiracy involving the media and the campaign of Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Trump has also threatened to sue multiple media outlets over coverage he deemed unfair, although he has not yet filed any of the threatened lawsuits. In response to one such threat from the Manhattan billionaire, concerning a story published by The New York Times outlining two allegations of assault against Trump, attorneys for the Times responded by writing that “if [Trump] believes that American citizens had no right to hear what these women had to say and that the law of this country forces us and those who would dare to criticize him to stand silent or be punished, we welcome the opportunity to have a court set him straight."

In his interview with the CBS affiliate in Miami, Trump said Great Britain’s relatively weaker protections for free speech and the press force media outlets to act more responsibly.

“Well, in England you have a good chance of winning. And deals are made and apologies are made. Over here they don’t have to apologize,” he said. “They can say anything they want about you or me and there doesn’t have to be any apology. England has a system where if they are wrong, things happen.”