Trump defends DOJ subpoenas of NY Times reporters; Google also was targeted
We're after people that are cowards, people that are unpatriotic, people that are treasonous in many cases.""And the way you find them is through journalists," the president said.
- ▪We're after people that are cowards, people that are unpatriotic, people that are treasonous in many cases.""And the way you find them is through journalists," the president said.
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President Donald Trump on Friday defended his Department of Justice's issuance of subpoenas to New York Times reporters, as it was revealed that Google also received a subpoena in the same criminal investigation of the leak of information about the president's new Air Force One plane.Trump's comments on the subpoenas came a day after the DOJ told a federal judge in New York that it was withdrawing those demands for grand jury testimony by Times reporters and their phone records in connection with an article about the president's Qatari-donated plane.Judge Arun Subramanian had warned prosecutors that if they did not voluntarily withdraw the subpoenas, he would quash them."We're not after journalists," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "We're after leakers.
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