Report: Trump told Comey to consider imprisoning reporters who publish leaks

[factfinder_77]

Source: CNN

President Trump has called reporters dishonest, said the media is "the enemy of the American people," and mused about making it easier to sue journalists. And, according to a new report, he has gone even further than that in private, telling then-FBI Director James Comey that Comey should consider locking reporters up.

Trump said this to Comey during a meeting in the Oval Office in February, according to a New York Times report Tuesday. The request came during the same meeting in which Trump is said to have asked Comey to drop the federal investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, potentially interfering with the investigation into alleged ties between Trump's presidential campaign and Russian officials.

Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/16/media/trump-imprison-reporters/

[jmowreader]

1. Message deleted by DU the Administrators

[truthisfreedom]

3. That's crazy talk.

Leaking to the russians is his god-given right and nothing the president does is illegal if the president does it. Reporters, on the other hand, are inherently evil and must be punished first and answer questions or else.

[riversedge]

13. yeah yeah, trumpy told us so. must be true

not

[luvMIdog]

2. imprison reporters for doing their job? ludicrous! imprison that orange leak

[videohead5]

4. He Wants To Be a Dictator

But he's just a Dick.

[countryjake]

5. Did he get any tips today from President Erdogan?

Turkey’s President could have probably given Trump some handy lessons on how to imprison journalists who have "insulted" him.

[Cha]

6. Comey Damns Trump By Saying He Didn't Write Memos On Obama Because Obama Was Truthful

Link to tweet

Just thought I'd drop that here..

You know it'll piss off trumphuck

[Achilleaze]

7. KGOP determined to stomp out facts & truth

freaking republicans, led by their sleazeball Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, have accelerated their full-scale War on Facts.

Deplorable.

[mdbl]

8. trump really needs to be impeached

when will these moron repuglicans in congress do something about him?

[Ligyron]

9. In a way, this attitude is as disturbing as Trump's attempts at obstruction of Justice.

He's right to be fearful though, our journalists are about the only thing standing between us and a would-be-dick-tater.

[KingCharlemagne]

14. The Judiciary also has not given Trump a free pass either. (Thinking specifically of Trump's

Executive Orders on Immigration.)

The thing about co-equal branches of government is that none takes a diminution of its rights or prerogatives lightly

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Is it the same old game?

A developer/landlord deals with city bureaucracy, licenses and inspections,
tenant associations, the press, the banks. Many news articles in any major
city detail such friction. Protests, lawsuits, greased palms, loans, bankruptcies,
etc. Is this the same game on a national scale? Deregulation. Laws and rules
are the enemy. Government is bad because it has regulations and officials
to enforce them.

Silence the press. Buy off law enforcement. And always act like you're entitled,
and able to pull it off, doing nothing out of the ordinary.

[turbinetree]

11. This F has this on his Resume

and the media should remind the public of this fact everyday, besides the TREASON

Hey f***er you are a sexual predator, let me say it again your f***ing sexual predator

And then we have this ass****, and I really mean you are a f***ing ass****, a treasonous one at that

Your reputation there "dude" is like sh*t, everything you touch smells

[SergeStorms]

12. An administration determined to.....

be as opaque as possible. Transparency? Fuggetaboutit! In Trumpland, reporting the unvarnished truth about things the Trump administration is doing = "fake news". This is exactly what Trump's supporters think. Unless they hear it directly from Trump's "decisive, tell it like it is" mouth, they don't believe it. The rest of the country is exactly the opposite. If it spews forth from Trump's bulbous, gaping maw, it's definitely a lie.

How can Trump's supporters actually believe that EVERY news source in the world, including FOX News at times, are spreading "liberal lies"? How disconnected from reality can they possibly be? In the face of overwhelming evidence they remain steadfastly loyal to this monstrous megalomaniac.

Even more unbelievable is the fact that these same people seem to accept Trump's power grab, his unveiled attack to become the supreme dictator in our country, as a GOOD thing! They see absolutely NOTHING wrong with that. These people must think that authoritarian rule is a better choice than democracy, or even free will. My guess is, that these people are wedded to authoritarian types in all facets of their lives. They're undoubtedly religious, having their "angry daddy in the sky" giving them orders, and watching everything they do. They probably had overbearing parents, who kept them from doing anything out of the "ordinary", and never doled out any praise, no matter how remarkable their achievements. Growing up for them must have been like being in the Hitler Youth. How else could anyone explain the total lack of intellectual inquiry required to question Trump's illicit action?

I give up. If all of these things Trump is doing to subvert our democracy doesn't phase these people, it's a fait accompli. It's over. I'd better start looking for a new country in which to dwell. America is no longer beautiful. It's an ugly shell of it's former greatness.

[Dopers_Greed]

15. I wonder what the Greenwald/Snowden cabal have to say about this

They've been suspiciously quiet since Twitler took over

[luvMIdog]

16. Well I guess we know what reporters think of him now ;)