Senate passes unanimous resolution avowing a free press

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'In a uniform decision Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to "reaffirm the vital and indispensable role the free press serves."

Why it matters: The resolution comes on the heels of a nationwide push by hundreds of local and national newspapers to publish editorials standing up for the press in response to President Trump's claims the press is an "enemy of the people."'

Senate passes unanimous resolution avowing a free press

Good for the Senate.

Will Trump sign up to it?

Do you even know what a resolution from the senate is?

 

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How is he violating the constitution by bashing a press that bashes him?

He's already had his people float the idea that the President should have the power to shutdown any news agency the president deems is propagating 'fake news'.

With a full 43% of republicans polled supporting empowering the President to shut down any news agency that is engaged in 'bad behavior'.

Resolutions such as those passed by the Senate are necessary due to the loathsome and rampant corruption of the President and how eager many republicans are to grant the President unprecedented powers to attack the press.

Until something actual happens it's nothing but words, and no constitutional violation. Dems have been bitching about "doing something" about Fox News for a decade now with nothing actually happening, where was your angst about that?

And you keep using the word corruption without any evidence of actual corruption.

This administration is so corrupt the president's lawyers need lawyers a this point.

His campaign is under criminal investigation by the Justice Department for collusion with Russia...which the President admitted to. Trump himself is reluctant to testify for fear he will perjure himself. His former Campaign chair is on trial as we speak, his deputy campaign chair has plead guilty to numerous crimes, with his former foreign policy adviser and national security adviser.

Trump's own son was recorded by Spanish authorities arranging a meeting with Russian Intelligence Handler Alexander Torshin during the campaign. The same son that arranged a meeting with a Russian operative in Trump Tower, after being told that the information he would receive was part of the Russian government's efforts to aid Trump.

And Cohen, Trump's former lawyer (a man who just arranged his own plea deal with the FBI) admitting that Trump was fully aware of the meeting. A meeting Trump has lied about repeatedly, has compelled others to lie by personally dictating a statement on the meeting filled with lies, with Trump trying to shut down the investigation into the meeting between an operative from Russia and his own campaign.

The level of corruption in this campaign and administration are unprecedented.

But you ignore all this. A rational person wouldn't. And Mueller certainly won't.

WTF does that have to do with the senate resolution?

That is another topic altogether - one that is already in a dozen other threads.

Simple: I'm arguing that the president is so rampantly corrupt that the senate found it necessary to pass a resolution reaffirming our most basic freedoms.

I don't expect it to be the last...especially after this corrupt president just told the Attorney General to investigate his political enemies.

The administration is so corrupt that the senate found it necessary to do nothing?

Not really very convincing. If there is a problem then the senate should get off its ass and DO SOMETHING. You know - write a law.

 

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He's already had his people float the idea that the President should have the power to shutdown any news agency the president deems is propagating 'fake news'.

With a full 43% of republicans polled supporting empowering the President to shut down any news agency that is engaged in 'bad behavior'.

Resolutions such as those passed by the Senate are necessary due to the loathsome and rampant corruption of the President and how eager many republicans are to grant the President unprecedented powers to attack the press.

Until something actual happens it's nothing but words, and no constitutional violation. Dems have been bitching about "doing something" about Fox News for a decade now with nothing actually happening, where was your angst about that?

And you keep using the word corruption without any evidence of actual corruption.

This administration is so corrupt the president's lawyers need lawyers a this point.

His campaign is under criminal investigation by the Justice Department for collusion with Russia...which the President admitted to. Trump himself is reluctant to testify for fear he will perjure himself. His former Campaign chair is on trial as we speak, his deputy campaign chair has plead guilty to numerous crimes, with his former foreign policy adviser and national security adviser.

Trump's own son was recorded by Spanish authorities arranging a meeting with Russian Intelligence Handler Alexander Torshin during the campaign. The same son that arranged a meeting with a Russian operative in Trump Tower, after being told that the information he would receive was part of the Russian government's efforts to aid Trump.

And Cohen, Trump's former lawyer (a man who just arranged his own plea deal with the FBI) admitting that Trump was fully aware of the meeting. A meeting Trump has lied about repeatedly, has compelled others to lie by personally dictating a statement on the meeting filled with lies, with Trump trying to shut down the investigation into the meeting between an operative from Russia and his own campaign.

The level of corruption in this campaign and administration are unprecedented.

But you ignore all this. A rational person wouldn't. And Mueller certainly won't.

WTF does that have to do with the senate resolution?

That is another topic altogether - one that is already in a dozen other threads.

Simple: I'm arguing that the president is so rampantly corrupt that the senate found it necessary to pass a resolution reaffirming our most basic freedoms.

I don't expect it to be the last...especially after this corrupt president just told the Attorney General to investigate his political enemies.

The administration is so corrupt that the senate found it necessary to do nothing?

Not really very convincing. If there is a problem then the senate should get off its ass and DO SOMETHING. You know - write a law.

Or, better yet, repeal some.