‘Big fat nothing’: Absurd flaws at heart of Trump’s revenge probe of CNN exposed

Two Los Angeles trial lawyers say the Justice Department’s antitrust probe of the nation’s biggest TV networks has a flaw so basic it borders on absurd: one of its targets is being investigated for boycotting a White House it had been banned from.The department said earlier this month that it is investigating ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News over whether they broke antitrust law when the five networks that make up the White House TV pool halted pool coverage in protest. The pause came after President Donald Trump barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House in September.On Legal AF’s “Civil Action” show, Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian, plaintiffs’ attorneys at Kabateck LLP, picked the case apart.“He’s investigating CNN for being engaged in this anti-competitive behavior. They were barred by him,” Kabateck said.The lawyers pointed to a second problem as well. Antitrust cases, they said, hinge on...