Schiff wants to probe Trump for targeting CNN, Washington Post

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Schiff wants to probe Trump for targeting CNN, Washington Post

By Nikki Schwab

November 11, 2018 | 4:58pm

A top House Democrat wants to probe President Trump’s attempts to punish media companies who give him negative news coverage.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told “Axios on HBO” that he wants to see if Trump abused his power when he tried to meddle in the affairs of companies associated with The Washington Post and CNN.

In question, Schiff said, was whether the president used “the instrument of state power to punish the press.”

For one, Trump had publicly suggested that Amazon — whose founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post — was ripping off the US Postal Service.

Schiff told Axios that the president “was secretly meeting with the postmaster [general] in an effort to browbeat the postmaster [general] into raising postal rates on Amazon.”

Former officials additionally told Axios that despite telling Trump that the Postal Service’s financial hardship had nothing to do with Amazon, the president couldn’t be convinced.

“This appears to be an effort by the president to use the instruments of state power to punish Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post,” Schiff said on “Axios on HBO.”

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[Wingnut]

Someone better sit on that  boy or there will be hell to pay.  Didn't the Rats get the memo,  they were elected to govern not waste time on witch hunts and to get face time on televised  House kangaroo courts

[TomSea]

Someone better sit on that  boy or there will be hell to pay.  Didn't the Rats get the memo,  they were elected to govern not waste time on witch hunts and to get face time on televised  House kangaroo courts

If this was so, we would not have the Mueller investigation.

[skeeter]

Someone better sit on that  boy or there will be hell to pay.  Didn't the Rats get the memo,  they were elected to govern not waste time on witch hunts and to get face time on televised  House kangaroo courts

You left off the sarcasm tag. We both know thats exactly why the average rat voter put these worthless punks in office.

[Wingnut]

You left off the sarcasm tag. We both know thats exactly why the average rat voter put these worthless punks in office.

But the MSM has been telling me that with all the new, young blood in the house they are willing to work together and build campfires, roast marshmallows cross party lines and sing "Kum ba yah" my Lord on the house floor.

It's a beatuiful thing skeeter. Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?  :)

woof woof

[240B]

This is just one of thousands of probes, investigations, and subpoenas the Democrats are planning. They want it to be never ending for two reasons. They want to harass Trump and anybody within a mile of him out of office, and they want to convince moronic Democrats that he is the most corrupt person on Earth because they will believe anything.

[Wingnut]

This is just one of thousands of probes, investigations, and subpoenas the Democrats are planning. They want it to be never ending for two reasons. They want to harass Trump and anybody within a mile of him out of office, and they want to convince moronic Democrats that he is the most corrupt person on Earth because they will believe anything.

And they will have the full weight and support and all the bias of the 4th Estate to promote any and all of their endeavors witch hunts to bring Trump down.

[aligncare]

“Re: Schiff wants to probe Trump for targeting CNN, Washington Post”

Sounds blatantly obscene coming from Schiff.