Discussion: How Trump Is Using Department of Justice To Pressure CNN

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I wonder how the Sinclair Broadcast Group feels about this.

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Great reporting, Sam. I appreciate that you’re getting out in front of this issue before it becomes a full-blown crisis.

No surprise that Kushner appears to be up to his scrawny neck in efforts to intimidate the media from exercising First Amendment rights. (Wasn’t he supposed to present his plan for Peace in the Muddled East last month?)

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Prove it and sue their ass…and if you can’t do THAT then show EVERYONE how they are obstructing the Constitution they are subverting. It may not help with the 29% of knuckledragging Trumpsters but it will help with the other 71%.

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‘People Were Mean To Me!’ [sniffle]

Imagine that! … So much for Melting Snowflake’s “security” story.

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Trump has put outspoken foes of excessive all regulation in charge of the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission.

FIFY.

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At what point does the head of CNN get together with the heads of the other news organizations to collaborate on a statement saying this will not stand?

After CNN is all but shut down or de-fanged or whatever, does anyone truly believe that (other than Faux Noise), the administration won’t go after another news organization with a perception of not being fair to him?

Is this not another instance of ‘and then they came after me and there was no one left to protect me’ or whatever that line is? Is the MSM news so caught up in its own little bubble that they don’t see themselves in the crosshairs of this administration?

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Good. I want the entire daily existence of these people to be one of non-stop harassment, insults and “unpleasant interactions” until they day they’re out of power and for a good few years afterwards to ensure the point is driven in deep.

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Goddamn nothing is off limits for Donald and his band of lying thieves.

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Maybe if Pruitt stopped doing such obscenely damaging things to our environment people would be nicer to him.

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Funny how these people keep acting as if this isn’t a democracy and we don’t have the right to criticize them and for that matter, to be mean to them if that’s how we feel about them.

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Amp it up, CNN.

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In 2014 Rupert Murdoch’s $80 billion bid for Time Warner was rejected indicating that for several years Murdoch has had a strong desire to acquire CNN. Now Trump is attempting to use anti-trust concerns as an excuse to force AT&T to sell CNN and Murdoch will be first in line to buy the TV news network. I’m not a lawyer, but this appears to be a blatant violation of the 1st amendment.

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It really is a merger that will harm consumers. But so is every other big merger that trump and his cronies are just fine with.

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Trump better not get too close to Chris Cuomo …

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If I found myself sitting next to Pruitt, I doubt I’d be able to restrain myself from spitting in his face.

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And did it occur to anyone to ask that Orange Urine-Stain “Why?” or “How?” such a merger would be bad for the country? I mean, I have no idea, myself, but I would bet my bottom dollar that spray tanned piece of shit couldn’t even begin to describe anything about the merger that would impact anything but coverage of his disaster of an Administration.

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Stupid Watergate and the First Amendment.

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Oh, Great Bob Mueller, please lock up this orange piece of crap and restore some sort of dignity and honor to the office. Every friggin’ day, nothing but more horrible news from the Baby-in-Chief and his band of criminals.

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