WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump has sued The Des Moines Register for running a poll before the election that showed him trailing Vice President Kamala Harris, escalating his threats to seek retribution against the mainstream media and his political enemies.

Trump has long said that people he claims have wronged him should be prosecuted, including President Joe Biden and his family; Jack Smith, the special counsel who charged Trump with trying to overturn the 2020 election and mishandling classified documents; and Liz Cheney, the former representative from Wyoming who helped lead the House investigation into Trump’s efforts to cling to power in 2020.

In recent months, he has filed various legal actions against the media that amount to a warning shot about what sort of retaliation journalists, in particular, might face.

Trump will soon have at his disposal the levers of government, a party that is more pliant than before and a well-funded external political apparatus.

— The New York Times