After Trump threatens the press, senator asks FCC to affirm free speech

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Raising an alarm over Donald Trump’s repeated attacks last week on free speech protections, a Democratic senator is demanding that board members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) individually affirm their commitment to first amendment rights.

Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut planned to release a letter on Monday in which he calls on the five-member FCC board of commissioners to declare their personal support for free speech, the Associated Press reported.

Echoing Blumenthal’s concerns, one member of the commission obliquely criticized FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s failure to speak out against Trump’s attacks.

“I can’t really speak to what he is thinking,” Jessica Rosenworcel told CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday. “But I do think that history won’t be kind to silence.”

Following what he perceived as tendentious news coverage last week on NBC News, Trump suggested to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday that free speech protections should come under review.

“It is frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write and people should look into it,” Trump said.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/oct/15/after-trump-threatens-the-press-senator-asks-fcc-to-affirm-free-speech


Hey trump, your an illegitimate president and "You are not my president"

Your a loser.......................bigly

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1. I Notice That We Tend To Talk Directly To Trump Here On DU....

like in the OP - "Hey Trump, your and illegitimate president and You are not my president".

I know this - and I do this too. But - I don't think that Trump is aware of DU and doesn't visit us here and therefore he never receives our direct messages to him.

How can we get Trump to visit DU and see how we think of him? Is there a creative way we can get him to check out DU - like he reads the newspapers and watches the cable news shows? If you think he gets raging mad when he does that - just think of how raging and insane he'd get if he read our comments about him here on DU.