I don’t think he should keep his mouth shut.
You don't get to have it both ways. It don't work that way.
I think he should dismiss the enemedia as irrelevant dinosaurs, vestiges of a bygone era of info control - as his opponent is an irrelevant dinosaur, a (barely) living symbol of bygone days... a late and unlamented past, destined never to return.
America looks forward to a bright future, created by forward-thinking optimists, not a murky fog emitted by old-style mandarins of the “New World Order.”