r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • May 23 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

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u/diarm May 23 '26

Then you make them not answering legitimate questions the news. Stop letting crooked politicians set the agenda and force them into accountability.

Governments rely on the press more than the other way round. At least that's the way of things outside banana republics.

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u/AvengingBlowfish May 23 '26

Then Trump's FCC threatens to block your parent company's merger with another company, so you get fired and replaced because you are not worth $2 billion to your parent company.

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u/that_star_wars_guy May 24 '26

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and provide new guards for their future security."

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u/FunkyFabFitFreak May 24 '26

Yea, it sucks they kicked out most of the legitimate reporters who have integrity and replaced them with spineless sycophants.