By Jane Mayer
In January, (click here) during the longest government shutdown in America’s history, President Donald Trump rode in a motorcade through Hidalgo County, Texas, eventually stopping on a grassy bluff overlooking the Rio Grande. The White House wanted to dramatize what Trump was portraying as a national emergency: the need to build a wall along the Mexican border. The presence of armored vehicles, bales of confiscated marijuana, and federal agents in flak jackets underscored the message.
But the photo op dramatized something else about the Administration. After members of the press pool got out of vans and headed over to where the President was about to speak, they noticed that Sean Hannity, the Fox News host, was already on location. Unlike them, he hadn’t been confined by the Secret Service, and was mingling with Administration officials, at one point hugging Kirstjen Nielsen, the Secretary of Homeland Security. The pool report noted that Hannity was seen “huddling” with the White House communications director, Bill Shine. After the photo op, Hannity had an exclusive on-air interview with Trump. Politico later reported that it was Hannity’s seventh interview with the President, and Fox’s forty-second. Since then, Trump has given Fox two more. He has granted only ten to the three other main television networks combined, and none to CNN, which he denounces as “fake news.”...
Not to be overlooked is the interview on "All In" with Chris Hayes, there was a revelation about Murdoch's request for classified information about his former spouse. This is called abuse of power. AND THIS IS ONLY ONE EXAMPLE of Trump's abuse of power.
If Trump is handing out classified information like candy, is there any doubt Russia gets exactly what Russia wants?
If Trump is handing out classified information like candy, is there any doubt Russia gets exactly what Russia wants?
March 4, 2019
...“Another point I want to make is,(click here for video - thank you) this is not just about politics, this is about big business, right?” said Sherman. “Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who controls Fox News, has a personal relationship with the president. The Democratic Congress might want to find out, what favors, potentially, did the Murdoch family get because of this access?”
...“Another point I want to make is,(click here for video - thank you) this is not just about politics, this is about big business, right?” said Sherman. “Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who controls Fox News, has a personal relationship with the president. The Democratic Congress might want to find out, what favors, potentially, did the Murdoch family get because of this access?”
“I’ve reported in the past that Trump asked Rupert Murdoch to submit names for the FCC chairman,” continued Sherman. “A close Murdoch associate told me that, in fact, Rupert Murdoch reached out to Trump and asked if his ex-wife, Wendy Murdoch, was a Chinese spy, and the allegation is that Trump talked to the intelligence agencies about her connections to the Chinese government.”
“What?” blurted out Hayes. “Is that — have you reported that?”
“Yes, that’s what sources are telling me,” said Sherman....
