Trump team threatens to prosecute CNN over reporting on Ice-tracking app | Donald Trump
Donald Trump and administration officials threatened CNN on what they said to be his promotion of a new application that allows users to follow and try to avoid immigrants and customs agents.
Addressing journalists in Florida during a trip to visit a new Ice Detention Center in the Everglades, nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz”, the secretary of the Ministry of Internal Security, Kristi Noem, said that his department and the Ministry of Justice planned to continue the CNN on its reports on the application, called Iceblock.
“We are working with the Ministry of Justice to see if we can continue them,” said Noem, “because what they do is actively encouraging people to avoid activities and operations to apply the law. We will really pursue them and pursue them. What they do is illegal.”
Trump joined them, saying that the news network – a frequent target of his anger – should also be prosecuted for what he said to be “false reports on the attack on Iran”, referring to the flight of an evaluation of the Pentagon which suggested that we suggested that we have probably not recovered the nuclear installations of Iran.
“They were completely erased,” said Trump. “Our employees must be celebrated, [and] Not get home: “What do you mean that we have not reached the targets?” “”
The comments occurred a few hours after Tom Homan, Trump’s Tsar Frontier, also criticized CNN for his reports on the Iceblock application.
“It’s disgusting,” said Homan during an appearance in the commentator’s internet program Benny Johnson. “I cannot believe that we live in a world where men and women in the application of laws are the bad guys. It is already a dangerous work. ”
Homan had been asked about the application, which was created to report the observations of ice agents in a given area. Software developer Joshua Aaron recently told CNN that he had launched the application “when I saw what was going on in this country”.
“I wanted to do something to retaliate,” said Aaron, telling the network that the deportation efforts of the administration recalled for him, for him. “We literally watch the story repeat,” said Aaron.
Homan also suggested that CNN was an accomplice to endanger federal police.
“It is horrible that a national media would undertake law implementation operations,” he said. “I think the Doj needs to look at this. They cross this line. “
He added: “We must send a strong message that we must protect agents from the police.”
Trump is engaged in a number of proceedings with media companies, including legal action against CBS / Global Paramount on an interview of 60 minutes with Kamala Harris, who, according to the trial, was deceptively modified to promote Harris.
A trial against ABC News and the anchor George Stephanopoulos for having declared that he had been tried responsible for “rape” in a civil case, when he was tried responsible for sexual abuse, was settled after ABC agreed to pay $ 15 million at the Trump Foundation.
The threat to the Iceblock application comes because Noem is seen on American television networks promoting a customs and border patrol application that encourages illegal immigrants to register with the agency and leave the country.
