Tapper: Would’ve Been ‘Torches in the Street’ if Obama Threatened to Pull Fox News’ License

‘It just boggles the mind, if President Obama had said that about Fox or Breitbart or whatever’

Tapper: Would’ve Been ‘Torches in the Street’ If Obama Threatened to Pull Fox News’ License (Mediaite)

Yesterday, President Donald Trump took aim at NBC News for reporting that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the president a “moron” because Trump wanted a tenfold increase in the country’s nuclear arsenal. POTUS jumped on Twitter and threatened to challenge NBC News’ broadcasting licenses for reporting “fake news.” (Something he can’t really do, by the way.)

During a panel discussion on CNN’s The Lead this afternoon, anchor Jake Tapper noted that if Trump’s predecessor had taken aim at conservative outlets in this manner, the outrage would have been so loud that we would have likely seen action in the streets.

Pointing out that he began yesterday’s broadcast by holding up a copy of the Constitution, Tapper explained that the president is “talking about getting the government to go after media organizations for reporting things he doesn’t like.”

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