Trump’s Threat Against Freedom of Speech & The Press

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Trump’s threats of shutting down news outlets which are critical of him proves he’s a wannabe dictator who intends to destroy Democracy and Freedom of Speech in the U.S. if elected President in 2024.

Trump hate’s MSNBC and wants them shut down because they expose him for being a Wannabe Fascist Dictator, his despicable conduct, his LIES, Lawlessness, Corruption, the Worst President in History, the threat which he is to Democracy and the United States. This is what Dictators do… SILENCE anyone or anything which exposes their lies, corruption, lawlessness and autocratic behavior.

 

 

Authoritarians around the world makes a priority of attacking the media that criticize them and notes that tendency in Donald Trump and the Trumpy class of Republicans and billionaires who emulate autocrats.

 

Lawrence: Media still not ready to cover Trump after years of his lies

Donald Trump called on the government to “come down hard” on MSNBC and not one major broadcast news network covered it. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why this is a product of what Brian Klaas calls the “banality of crazy.”

 

Trump: NBC, CNN should have ‘licenses or whatever’ pulled for not airing Iowa speech

Former President Trump says NBC and CNN should be taken off the air for their decision to not air in full the speech he gave in Iowa following his win in Monday’s caucuses. “We were talking about her show and how corrupt the press is, and last night it was amazing,” Trump said during separate…

Per the above article: “NBC, CNN should have ‘licenses or whatever’ pulled for not airing Iowa speech

“Trump says NBC and CNN should be taken off the air for their decision to not air in full the speech he gave in Iowa following his win in Monday’s caucuses. We were talking about her show and how corrupt the press is, and last night it was amazing,” Trump said during separate remarks to a crowd in New Hampshire on Tuesday night. “NBC and CNN refused to air my victory speech. They should have their licenses or whatever they have: Take it away.”

“There is a reason that we and other news organizations have generally stopped giving an unfiltered live platform to remarks by former President Trump,” said Rachel Maddow, a leading pundit, on its air Monday night as he was speaking. There is a cost to us as a news organization of knowingly broadcasting untrue things. And that is a fundamental truth of our business and who we are.”

Just another example of how Turmp is a Wannabe Dictator who is the THREAT to Freedom of Speech and Democracy in the United States

 

Trump administration secretly obtained CNN reporter’s phone and email records

The Trump administration secretly sought and obtained the 2017 phone and email records of a CNN correspondent, the latest instance where federal prosecutors have taken aggressive steps targeting journalists in leak investigations.

 

Trump has repeatedly attacked the concept of an independent press. He’s called critical coverage “fake news” and journalists “the enemy of the American people,” made threats to change libel laws and revoke licenses, and his battles with CNN led him to try to interfere in the AT&T/Time Warner merger.

This demonstrates his unwillingness to respect and uphold the Constitution, and disdain for the crucial foundations to our free society.

Bottom line: Trump’s threats against freedom of the press are also threats against American democracy.

 

 

Since Trump began running for President and throughout his 1st year in office, he has called the Press “The Enemy of the People” and news which exposes things he doesn’t like, “Fake News“.

 

It’s clear, the reason Trump hates the press is because they expose his LIES and outrageous behavior.

 

Trump attacks on the press out of an authoritarian playbook

 

Here’s how Trump has threatened the media

 

On November 29 2023, Trump stated that he wants the ‘Federal Government to come down Hard on MSNBC’ for its criticism of him.

 

Trump Wants To Change Libel Laws So People Can’t Criticize Him

 

Allies to Donald Trump are pitching a “system overhaul” for the U.S. government in a plan called Project 2025, which some call a revealing and horrifying look at what many leading entities on the right have in store for America should Donald Trump return to the White House.

 

 

Trump’s Threats To Become A Dictator After Election Cannot Be Ignored

Donald Trump has been increasing his use of fascist language in his speeches, but that’s nothing compared to the actual plans that his team is working on should he retake the White House. In addition to creating an “army” of loyal public servants and lawyers, Trump has also said that he would use the Insurrection Act to root out enemies of the country. That doesn’t mean extremists from terrorist cells hiding in the country – it means people like you.

 

 

Trump’s new autocratic plan exposed… Alarms over ‘radical second term’ plots

Trump plans to declare Martial Law using the Military to QUASH protests, violating the First Amendment and his Oath of Office if he’s elected President. In a new report, The Associated Press details Donald Trump’s repeated “hints” of an “expanded role” for the military and the lack of “guardrails” to restrain him.

 

Trump is ‘making being a dictator his brand’: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Ana Cabrera is joined by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History at New York University and author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present,” to talk about Trump’s comments about being a “dictator for a day”.

 

Hungary Is a Version of What Republicans Wants For The U.S.

Chief national correspondent at the New York Times, Mark Leibovich, and former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, Frank Figliuzzi, react to Fox News’ anchor Tucker Carlson’s bizarre choice to host his show from Hungary, a country with an authoritarian regime.

 

Trump Endorses Right-Wing Autocrat In Hungary

Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and former FBI special agent Clint Watts discuss with Nicolle Wallace the former president’s endorsement of Viktor Orban ahead of the Parliamentary elections in Hungary.

 

Thom Hartmann explains how Victor Orbán and his Radical Right-Wing Party took over the once Democratic government in Hungary and turned it into a anti-democratic authoritarian fascist one-party-rule dictatorship where elections & the courts are rigged, all of the media is state controlled and praise for Victor Orbán Propaganda is seen everywhere.

 

Republicans admitting they want a dictatorship and want to eliminate Democracy

 

Representative Gerry Connolly explains how Trump plans to replace 50,000 Federal Employees with Trump loyalists, gut the Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883, invocation of the Insurrection Act on day one to QUASH protests, termination of all rules, regulations & articles, even those in the Constitution if Trump is elected for a 2nd term as President.

 

March 28, 2024 Steve Bannon stated: “After we’ve won the Accountability Project’s going to start and it’s going to be thorough this time. It’s going to be they’re going to be in prison”.

 

Trump posted & stated on 11/11/2023; ”We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country that lie and steal and cheat on elections”.

 

In response to outrage over Trump’s ‘vermin’ comment, his campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung stated about Trump opponents; “their entire existence will be crushed when President Trump returns to the White House.”

 

Radical Right Winger Mike Davis, who Trump might make his Attorney General has stated he’d pardon all of the January 6 rioters, toss opponents in ‘the gulag’ and caging migrant kids would be glorious.

Under Republicans “Project 2025” plans, Trump could order his Attorney General to arrest and prosecute anyone for no reason at all. Trump even mentioned this in a speech (shown in the above video) saying if he had a political rival who was doing well, he might have them “arrested for walking across the street the wrong way”.

Below is the post by Trump’s possible Attorney General pick, Mike Davis referenced in the above video, about putting Professor of History, Ruth Ben-Ghiat in the “Gulag”. Her crime? Being critical of Trump and calling him out for his Autocrat, Authoritarian, Fascist behavior which she claims is similar to Hitler & Mussolini.

 

 

Kash Patel, who may be in Trump’s 2025 administration of LAWLESSNESS and TERROR, recently stated; “We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media,” Patel said. “Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections — we’re going to come after you.

 

Steve Bannon Calls on “SHOCK TROOPS” to Take Over Government

 

On “The View” (Dec 6, 2023) co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served as White House Director of Strategic Communications for Trump, claimed he wanted to have a member of his own staff ‘executed’ for leaking a story about him going to the bunker during the George Floyd protests.

 

Trump Has Same Personality as Hitler, Mussolini

Historian and Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University Ruth Ben-Ghiat discusses how Trump has the same personality as dictators throughout history and talks about his hateful and racist ideology.

 

Steve Bannon and Kash Patel Outline the Scheme to Fill Government With Insurrectionists

Jesse talks about the exchanges between Steve Bannon and Kash Patel on Bannon’s show yesterday. They plotted about the swiftness of prosecutions of Donald Trump’s critics in the first moments after he was inaugurated if he is reelected.

Kash Patel, who may be a candidate for Trump’s Attorney General, recently stated; “We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media,” Patel said. “Yes, we’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens, who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections — we’re going to come after you.

These are the type of threats we used to hear from the Dictator of Soviet Russia, Nikita Khrushchev: “We will BURY you!”

 

Trump like Hitler and Mussolini

If elected President in 2024, Trump plans to declare Martial Law on the day he takes office to deploy the military to quash protests

 

Trump plans to expand executive power if he’s elected

Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, according to NYT reporting.

 

Trump is ‘making no effort to hide his fundamentally autocratic intentions’

Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes reacts to reporting on plans by Donald Trump to remove any and all obstacles to his power in a potential second term

 

Steve Schmidt breaks down the troubling polling that shows Donald Trump ahead in a head to head showdown with Joe Biden. Steve explains that these warnings must be taken seriously, as they were not properly heeded when Trump faced off against Hillary Clinton.

TRUMP ATTACKING REPORTERS

Trump Attacks Reporter Yamiche Alcindor For Quoting Him Directly

 

Trump loses it, erupts in feud with reporter over Jared Kushner’s lies

 

Trump Uses Coronavirus Briefing To Attack Media Covering A Pandemic

Trump got an assist from a far-right reporter during his coronavirus briefing in his attacks on the media, dismissing a valid question from another reporter there about the virus’s impact on the economy. Fmr. RNC Chairman Michael Steele reacts.

 

 

Trump behaves like the LUNATIC he is, attacking NBC’s Peter Alexander… ‘You’re A Terrible Reporter’. This is OUTRAGEOUS, UN-PRESIDENTIAL conduct. Since he fails to behave presidential and treats others with NO respect… HE deserves NO Respect

 

NBC News Peter Alexander speaks with Andrea Mitchell about the president’s attack during a press briefing on coronavirus. Aired on 03/20/2020.

 

Trump Attacks CNN, NBC Reporters At News Conference: ‘You Are A Rude, Terrible Person’

President Trump calls out CNN’s Jim Acosta at a White House news conference, saying, “The way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible.” Trump also tells NBC’s Peter Alexander, “I’m not a big fan of yours either.”

 

Trump calls CNN reporter ‘rude, terrible person,’ ‘enemy of the people’

At a news conference at the White House Nov. 7, President Trump told CNN reporter Jim Acosta, “When you report fake news … you are the enemy of the people.”