One can imagine his frustrations and on the surface the idea sounds good....but the repercussions could be horrific.
There must be other ways to keep the irresponsible media in check.
AFAIK, the standard is still ‘reckless disregard as to the truth or falsity’, even for a public person. I’d guess there must be law or case law that has made ‘reckless disregard’ meaningless.
‘Free speech’ original intent meant one was free to criticize the government, even in outlandish ways. The Founders would have laughed at the idea that it applied to pornography, for example.
I agree with you that Trump is now seeing how dangerous the Ruling Class can be.
It probably alarmed him at the need to scramble when unfairly attacked on the final weekend before Super Tuesday. He’s handling all of it well from what I’m seeing, but he probably wonders how others might get buried.
This phase of the primary is designed to improve the chances of October Surprises no matter how deceitful they are.