In any case, when Trump was president, his Division of Justice tried to dam AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner, the corporate that owned CNN. As The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer reported, the federal government’s opposition to the deal was broadly seen as retaliation for CNN protection that displeased Trump.
In a second Trump time period, the Division of Justice is anticipated to be much more aggressive in persecuting Trump’s perceived enemies. Kash Patel, a former Trump administration official who has been floated as a potential performing lawyer normal in a Trump restoration, boasted to Steve Bannon of plans to focus on journalists for rejecting Trump’s lies a few stolen 2020 election: “We’re going to come back after you, whether or not it’s criminally or civilly,” Patel stated.
They might go after anybody concerned with “The Apprentice” in the identical approach. In a cease-and-desist letter to the filmmakers, a lawyer for Trump claimed, absurdly, that the film is “direct overseas interference in America’s elections,” citing the truth that its director, Ali Abbasi, is Iranian Danish and that the film acquired funding from Denmark, Eire and Canada.
“If you don’t instantly stop all publication and advertising and marketing of the film, President Trump will pursue each acceptable authorized means to carry you accountable for this gross violation of President Trump and the American folks’s rights,” Trump’s lawyer wrote. Ought to he turn out to be president once more, he’ll have enormously expanded choices for pursuing this vendetta.
It’s widespread to examine motion pictures which might be proven in a lot of the world however not launched in, say, Russia or, extra typically, China. Ought to “The Apprentice” find yourself broadly obtainable globally however not, for political causes, in the US, it will likely be an indication of democratic decay, in addition to an augur of better self-censorship to come back. In any case, if anxiousness about enraging Trump is already shaping what you’ll be able to and can’t watch, it’s in all probability sure to get even worse if he truly returns to energy.
