Has Trump tacitly told us how it was he could declare so much news as fake?

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Yesterday, Trump released the following statement:

Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well.

It seems Trump may have been right about some of what we heard being fake news for, to the extent that "false information" Trump alleges Bannon leaked became news, it apparently was fake. Be that as it may, one sure way to know the news one sees reported is fake is to be, or be party to, the sourcing of it, which Trump surely had to be for Bannon was his chief political strategist. It's highly unlikely those two weren't in cahoots about whatever "fake information" Bannon would and would not leak. Provided that's so, much of the acrimony about the media, the press, was not real, but rather engineered, contrived with much the same spirit that underpinned Trump's contrivance to promote his company by pretending to be a publicist

Or is it that the indignation Trump has expressed over the past year was genuine and the information Bannon released was not at all fake. Obviously, were the information indeed fake, there'd have been no basis for Trump's incessant "crying like a stuck pig," because if one isn't going to sue for libel/slander, or if "one has bigger fish to fry," or if one isn't a sadistic jerk who takes joy in fomenting chaos and watching it unfold, one would completely ignore the fake stuff and talk about something else, something that is not fake and that is meaningful.