Trump goes to DOJ and declares CNN and MSNBC are breaking the law because they criticize him
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I’m so old I remember when it would have been considered utterly inconceivable, or at least a pretty goddamned big story, for a PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES to give a speech to “his” Department of Justice, in which he claimed that major news media sources that were criticizing him were engaging in criminal activity, because they were criticizing him.
US President Donald Trump says in a speech at the Department of Justice that US media outlets that cover him critically are “illegal” and “corrupt.”Trump says CNN, MSNBC and unidentified newspapers “literally write 97.6 percent bad about me” and “it has to stop. It has to be illegal.”
Speaking to prosecutors and law enforcement officers at the Department of Justice headquarters, Trump describes the media outlets as “political arms of the Democrat party. And in my opinion they’re really corrupt and they’re illegal. What they do is illegal.”
He says the media is “influencing judges and it’s really changing law, and it just cannot be legal. I don’t believe it’s legal. And they do it in total coordination with each other.”
I hope Merrick Garland’s very careful and comprehensive investigation of whether the president trying to overthrow the government violates any laws is moving along with, as Felix Frankfurter might have put it, “all deliberate speed.”
. . . If you want to get out of the boat: