In 2015, James Risen, then a reporter at The New York Times, called the Obama administration “ the greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation.” “I complained plenty about Fox News, but you never heard me threaten to shut them down, or call them ‘enemies of the people.’”Īctually, about Fox News, Obama White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told The New York Times in 2009, “We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent.”Īnd in 2013, Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post, wrote “the administration’s war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I’ve seen since the Nixon administration.”
“It shouldn’t be Democratic or Republican to say that we don’t threaten the freedom of the press because - they say things or publish stories we don’t like,” Obama said. Yet it was 50 words about the media that undercut Obama’s credibility with the absurd claim that he - unlike Trump - didn’t “threaten the freedom of the press.” Baloney.
Friday’s speech approached 7,000 words but boiled down to the notion that “common ground exists” and that change is possible at the voting booth. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, and Jeff Flake, R-Arizona. Millions of Americans who can’t stand Obama will just tune out the rhetoric, so different than Trump’s and so missed by his supporters, but Obama’s view of his successor is shared by prominent conservatives such as columnists George Will and Michael Gerson and Sens. politics in recent days, first on Friday at a college in Illinois to criticize “the politics of division and resentment and paranoia” of President Donald Trump and supporters in the Republican Party, then on Saturday at a rally in Anaheim while campaigning for seven Democratic congressional candidates. Tiffany, whose 7th Congressional District includes the Northwoods and northwestern Wisconsin, and Fitzgerald, the former state senate majority leader from southeastern Wisconsin's 5th Congressional District, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the letter.With his most pointed criticism since leaving office 20 months ago, former President Barack Obama broke his silence on U.S. That man had expressed outrage online at the execution of the warrant. In the days after the raid, police fatally shot a Trump supporter who tried to enter an FBI building in Ohio and shot at officers. Trump wrote on his social media site of federal authorities that "ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS ASK." But multiple news media outlets have reported that Trump’s lawyers said the former president had returned all government documents, which appears not to have been the case. But House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has pledged to do so if Republicans retake the House in November’s elections.
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Garland defended the search in remarks last week, saying he personally signed off on the warrant and that "faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of a Justice Department and of our democracy."īecause the House of Representatives is controlled by Democrats, the GOP Judiciary Committee members have limited power to launch a full investigation of the raid they cannot subpoena the documents they have demanded. Fitzgerald and Tiffany are part of that committee. Jim Jordan, the ranking Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee. But the raid has outraged Trump allies among right-wing media and GOP elected officials.
8 search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate authorizes officials to seize documents including classified materials and national defense information. The letters, dated Monday, ask the officials to turn over "all documents and communications referring or relating to the execution of a search warrant on President Trump’s residence" as well as information on the use of confidential sources in connection with the FBI’s investigation. Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald signed onto letters sent to FBI director Christopher Wray, Attorney General Merrick Garland and White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain demanding records related to the execution of the search warrant against the former president. Two conservative Wisconsin members of Congress are among 18 Republican signatories to a letter declaring their intention to investigate the FBI’s raid on the home of former President Donald Trump.
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