The White House plans to send a letter to top US news executives on Wednesday, urging them to intensify their scrutiny of House Republicans after Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite having found no evidence of a crime.
“It’s time for the media to ramp up its scrutiny of House Republicans for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies,” Ian Sams, a spokesperson for the White House Counsel’s Office, wrote in the letter, according to a draft copy obtained by CNN.
The letter, which said an impeachment inquiry with no supporting evidence should “set off alarm bells for news organizations,” will be sent to executives helming the nation’s largest news organizations, including CNN, The New York Times, Fox News, the Associated Press, CBS News, and others, a White House official familiar with the matter said.
It’s like that time the White House absolutely forcefully censored all social media. By asking that they take down unauthorized, pornographic pictures of the president’s son. Which would be illegal under any revenge porn laws at the very least. They were well within their right to do it and didn’t violate anyone’s rights in doing it. But the howling fascists went nuts.
That wasn’t the White House, that was the Biden campaign (and yes, it’s ridiculous that Twitter had to be told directly instead of moderating a clear terms violation like this by themselves).
More worrying was that the FBI was telling Twitter which accounts to ban, sometimes just for obvious jokes. And that was under both Trump and Biden.