Trump calls for Senate investigation of media outlets
By Erik Wemple
October 5 at 1:02 PM
... He’s the president of the United States, and yet there are limits to how he can use his power ...
... there’s the issue of the Beltway media, which refuses to enable a man extraordinarily unfit for his responsibilities ...
Political analysts are careful never to attribute too much strategic forethought to Trump’s actions, but there’s an interesting and very frightening progression at work here. For months and months, Trump hammered the media on Twitter and in his public pronouncements. Unfair and biased were common critiques in the early days of his campaign; after “fake news” emerged as a way to describe intentionally fabricated reports, Trump decided to throw that term at the Beltway media, with CNN a frequent target; now comes the next step — action ...
... if Trump really, really must have this investigation under his terms, he can just sue us all and depose his adversaries in a court proceeding. Though he’ll have to do so under long-standing libel laws.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/10/05/autocracy-anyone-trump-calls-for-senate-investigation-of-media-outlets/?utm_term=.e37017b71406
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