Is Trump Bending The Rules A Bit?

WJEN DONALD TRUMP BECAMD PRESIDENT, he labored under the misapprehension that the president is responsible for directing and controlling the Department of Justice. Trump, mistaken about something fundamental. how surprising. Someone whispered in his ear, without getting sexually molested, and, to America's good fortune, the new p resident became apprised of the proper, traditional, and very important independence of the Attorney General. The Justice Department must absolutely be independent of executive control, for the sake of justice, without the potential of executive influence. Thank the goddess of justice that the president was disabused of his unbelievable ignorance on the matter. But it might not have done much good, or any good, after all. Donald Trump is no stranger to back room bargaining in matters of business; with Russians, or whomever. A T & T and time Warner, two huge media companies, want to merge, or as Trump might say, "get married", with A T & T taking over the joint venture. Normally this would be no problem,, and would gain the swift approval of the D o J, since the two behemoths operate in separate areas of the media, and thus do not complete, meaning that there merger would not hinder the competitive free market, or violate federal anti-trust law. for forty years such mergers have gone through smoothly, particularly under republicans administration, and in fact nearly all other corporate mergers have sailed smoothly through with easy federal approval, making some observers wonder whatever happened to the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts. Suddenly, things have changed, mysteriously. Trump's Justice Department refuses to allow this marriage unless A T & T agrees to divest itself of the CNN network, which it flatly refuses to do, and threatens legal action. Red flags rise. We small a rat, from the direction of Trump Tower. Trump hates CNN, and accuses them of fabricating "fake news", fake news being defined as any comment of a factual nature which reflects negatively on the president, of which there are many possible. What CNN actually does is tell the truth about Trump, which the multi billionaire can't abide. Tell the truth about Donald Trump, you risk a savage twitter attack, or worse; people have been known to vanish. Does anyone even remotely suspect that the president may have text a terse text over to justice, something to the effect that "we must stop these media people from hurting America". something maudlin, simpering, yet crude. Who knows. perish the thought that someone of Trump's known integrity, honesty and moral rectitude should even consider illicitly intervening in the due process of justice to kick the corporate underpinnings out from under one of his many sworn enemies. But since the president seems to relish making then destroying enemies, who can say?