Rep Adam Schiff, who’s poised to be the next chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, states the Democrats strategy to examine whether the president utilized his powers to penalize journalism.
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House Democrats strategy to examine the Trump administration’s effort to obstruct AT&&(********************************************** )acquisition of Time Warner and whether the White House looked for to penalize Amazon by pushing the United States Postal Service to increase shipping rates for the web seller, a senior Democratic congressman stated Sunday.
Rep Adam Schiff, poised to be the next chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, informed Axios the Democrats will examine whether President Donald Trump utilized “the instruments of state power to punish the press.”
“It is very squarely within our responsibility to find out,” he stated in the interview, which will air Sunday night on HBO.
Since acquiring control of the House of Representatives in recently’s midterm elections, Democrats have actually pledged to release or continue probes into the president’s services and prospective disputes of interest.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post, while AT&T owns CNN. Both news outlets have actually included protection crucial of the president. Trump has actually supposedly weighed “ pursuing” Amazon over declared antitrust activities or infractions of competitors laws, while the Justice Department has took legal action against to obstruct AT&&(********************************************** )$85 billion merger with Time Warner.
Schiff stated Trump “was secretly meeting with the postmaster (general) in an effort to browbeat the postmaster into raising postal rates on Amazon… 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 stated.
Neither the White House, Amazon nor AT&T right away reacted to ask for remark.
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