RE:"This Was A Kangaroo Court" Jonathon Turley:Aw yes, free speech, like the "fake news" from the "enemy of the people"?
June 21, 2019
President Trump, in an interview this week and on Twitter on Friday morning, again suggested criminal action against American journalists. During a sit-down interview with Time magazine, Trump showed the reporters a letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. When a photographer tried to snap a photograph of the letter, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told him he couldn’t.
Later in the interview, the subject turned to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 campaign, and a reporter asked about sworn testimony that Trump tried to limit the investigation to only “future election meddling.”
Rather than answer, Trump lashed out about the photographer’s attempt to take a shot of the letter from Kim, according to a transcript of the interview that Time released Thursday night. “Well, you can go to prison, instead, because if you use, if you use the photograph you took of the letter that I gave you . . . ” Trump started.
When the Time reporter interjected to continue his line of questioning, Trump went on, “confidentially, I didn’t give it to you to take photographs of it — so don’t play that game with me.”
“I’m sorry, Mr. President. Were you threatening me with prison time?” the reporter asked.
Trump didn’t answer directly, but launched into a rant about Time’s unfavorable coverage of him.
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