Knowing what we know now, this article gets the motivation for POTUS to create an actual real news organization wrong. The Trump Team knew what the MSM was going to do and needed a way to get the truth out in a relatively unbiased way once the storm started. I think that is why they came here. We are the news now!
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/donald-trump-tv-network