Trump Justice Dept. spied on the Wash Post reporters back in 2017…..

Donald Trump went after media that wasn’t in his pocket….

This IS a BIG Deal to the media….

The Washington Post also is connected to Jeff Bezos…..

The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists’ phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia’s role in the 2016 election, according to government letters and officials.

In three separate letters dated May 3 and addressed to Post reporters Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller, and former Post reporter Adam Entous, the Justice Department wrote they were “hereby notified that pursuant to legal process the United States Department of Justice received toll records associated with the following telephone numbers for the period from April 15, 2017 to July 31, 2017.” The letters listed work, home or cellphone numbers covering that three-and-a-half-month period.

Cameron Barr, The Post’s acting executive editor, said: “We are deeply troubled by this use of government power to seek access to the communications of journalists. The Department of Justice should immediately make clear its reasons for this intrusion into the activities of reporters doing their jobs, an activity protected under the First Amendment.”….

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My Name Is Jack says

May 8, 2021 at 7:52 am

Richard Nixon Lives!
Zreebs says

May 8, 2021 at 8:49 am

(Ignoring public policy differences) Does anyone think that there is anything Richard Nixon did (other than resign) that would be off limits to Trump?
- Democratic Socialist Dave says
  
  May 8, 2021 at 9:51 am
  
  WWND?
  
  (What Would Nixon Do?)
- My Name Is Jack says
  
  May 8, 2021 at 10:35 am
  
  Indeed, Trumps a lot worse.
  
  I don’t think even Nixon would have incited a mob of hoodlums to attack the United States Capitol.
  - jamesb says
    
    May 8, 2021 at 10:44 am
    
    I agree….
    
    At least Nixon left when they told him to after his ‘dirty tricks’….
    
    Trump STILL can’t accept the American voters cancelled his sorry ass…