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President Donald Trump once again blew kisses at Fox News and took a swing …
Trump Takes Twitter Swing at CNN, Simultaneously Puts Foot in His Mouth
Trump Takes Twitter Swing at CNN, Simultaneously Puts Foot in His Mouth
President
Donald Trump once again blew kisses at Fox News and took a swing at
CNN, tweeting Saturday that Fox was “MUCH more important in the United
States than CNN,” adding “they represent our Nation to the WORLD very
poorly.”
CNN
took no time to fire back, “It’s not CNN’s job to represent the U.S to
the world. That’s yours. Our job is to report the news. #FactsFirst.”
But
what the POTUS may not be aware of is that, according to Norm Eisen,
the chief White House ethics lawyer under former President Barack Obama,
his latest jab at CNN could be used against his Justice Department in
its fight to block AT&T’s merger with Time Warner.
“Dear
Dodo-in-Chief: u realize that this tweet is going 2be an exhibit
against u in the DOJ -TimeWarner antitrust case right? It also smacks of
collusion since u did it on day when Vlad cracked down on US networks,”
Eisen tweeted. “For that reason, it may open u to other civil
liability.”
Bloomberg
reported on Nov. 20 that the Justice Department will file a lawsuit
seeking to block the $85 billion merger. The deal, announced last
October, would create a media behemoth with assets including the Warner
Bros. studio, CNN, HBO, the Turner networks, AT&T’s wireless
business and DirecTV. The Financial Times reported earlier this month that AT&T would have to sacrifice CNN to gain antitrust approval for the deal.
Trump
has repeatedly railed against CNN as “fake news” both as a presidential
candidate and since taking office and opposed the AT&T/Time Warner
merger at campaign rallies, while similar mergers having gained
regulatory approval in recent years.
Eisen
suggests that Trump’s tweet could be used to imply that the Justice
Department’s lawsuit is purely his personal dislike of CNN and has
nothing to do with antitrust laws. Eisen says that the POTUS’ tweet
hints at “collusion” between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin,
who out into law Saturday that foreign media outlets working in Russia
must be listed as foreign agents.
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