Trump’s NBC ‘treason’ investigation would violate Constitution, White House says

The White House strongly pushed back Monday on former President Donald Trump’s calls for a “treason” investigation into NBC News following his recent interview on Meet the Press, claiming that such an investigation would violate the Constitution.
Some legal experts claim that, in his NBC interview, the former president undercut his own defense argument regarding federal indictments raised for his action on and leading up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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In a subsequent post on Truth Social, Trump called for a Justice Department investigation into NBC for “Country Threatening Treason.”
“President Biden swore an oath to uphold our Constitution and protect American Democracy. Freedom of the press is a fundamental Constitutional right,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates told the Washington Examiner of Trump’s comments. “To abuse presidential power and violate the Constitutional rights of reporters would be an outrageous attack on our democracy and the rule of law. Preside …