(-) BREAKING: Trump admits live on CNN “we’re trying to have CNN go on a normal path”

The timing makes the admission even more chilling

The Justice Department just approved Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company, a merger that depends on staying in the administration’s good graces. When a president talks about putting a network on a “normal path” while holding leverage over its owners, that is not a slip of the tongue.

That is a warning.

Just months ago, Tapper himself declared on air that CNN’s job “is not to try and please the president or only report the statements he likes. ” On Sunday, Americans watched him do exactly that, and they made clear the free press answers to the public, not the president.