This banning press and attempt to make illegal any FREE SPEECH that calls Trump and company out is as fascist as fascist gets. Tell me again how I’m radical. I got a whole level of radical you haven’t seen yet… but you’re about to MAGA.
Trump threatens to sue authors and media who use anonymous sources
US President Donald Trump, furious over a disparaging new tell-all book about him, threatened Wednesday to sue authors and media outlets that use anonymous sources.
Trump has made suing people an integral part of his brand as he made his way up from New York real estate mogul to the US presidency twice, and this time he is taking aim at the common practice of books and news stories using unnamed sources.
Trump is also famously contemptuous of mainstream media in America, which he routinely labels the "fake news" media.
His latest move comes after the publication of a new expose by journalist Michael Wolff that has Trump and his team livid.
Among other assertions the book says that after surviving an assassination attempt last summer during the election campaign, Trump "seemed possibly on the verge of cracking," unable to finish sentences and flying into rages that were stunning even for the famously thin-skinned former reality TV star.
In a social media post Trump said that after what he called his wildly successful first month back in power, "Fake books and stories" with anonymous sources are coming out and "at some point I am going to sue some of these dishonest authors and book publishers" to determine if these sources exist, "which they largely do not."
Trump added: "They are made up, defamatory fiction, and a big price should be paid for this blatant dishonesty. I'll do it as a service to our Country. Who knows, maybe we will create some NICE NEW LAW!!!
The new book by Wolff -- he had a bestseller that came out in 2018 called "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" -- among other bombshell claims also quotes a Mar-a-Lago source as saying Trump's wife Melania hates him.
The Trump White House is skirmishing early and often with the news media as the president presses relentlessly his hard-right agenda targeting immigrants and gutting the federal government through the free-wheeling work of billionaire Elon Musk, an adviser with an outsize role in Trump's so far very busy second term.
On Tuesday the administration broke decades of tradition by announcing that the White House itself would pick which media get close access to the president in confined quarters like the Oval Office as part of what is known as a press pool.
Until now an independent association of American media organizations covering the White House made this selection.
You cannot shame American citizens who have already willingly chosen to abdicate their responsibility to democratic principles. They've already crossed that Rubicon. They have chosen to separate themselves from the social agreement that that the Founding Fathers hashed out hundreds of years ago.
In a country that has 1A in its Constitution, an outspoken citizen (in a public gathering) was physically subdued and removed from an open forum. In front of a room full of witnesses.
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America's history is rife with stories similar to this, from its earliest days. And in every story, there are instances where other American citizens looked on... but didn't step up.
"Evil flourishes when good people do nothing."
Which makes me ask: "If they did nothing, were they actually good people at all?"
Look... I love the "both sides" argument as much as the next guy, but it sounds really lame when you have DA's claiming that they are "Donald Trump's lawyers" (which is the exact opposite of the oath they took), a president who is saying that what he says the law is is what goes, and an unelected and un-appointed billionaire who's running roughshod over whole govt departments and gaining access (and unintentionally sharing) sensitive information all along the way.
... oh, and that same billionaire that's gutting departments (like the ATC) is also first in line for the contract to "fix" the department he's tearing apart right now. Gee, what a coincidence.
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
Yeah, the "both sides" argument at this point is only being presented by people who aren't really paying attention to what's actually going on right now. If there was ever a time to get into "Good trouble", now is that time.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
No they don't.....it is sad in America when a group of people can't discuss issues QUIETLY until it is their turn to talk.....unfortunately, the general population probably watches CSAN and know how Reps and Senators berate each other as they talk with constant interuptions and disrespect----this is the new normal.
Interesting MAGA- Trump and his legions still state they won in 2020....four years Biden was President, but our current President will tell you he never lost--- WOW, have we got nut cases leading us. Biden was unfit physically and mentally.....Trump unfit morally and probably mentally=== ie invisible airplanes/ stealth....and his comments about Washington/ President Washington protecting the airports.....look it up.....Trump's not all there.
"You've never lived till you've almost died, life has a flavor the protected will never know" A vet or cop
Trump is going down the FASCIST as hell checklist and checking every box.
Uses his position to target enemies, rather blatantly hating on him or merely perceived slights.
Deporting people without due process. And today expressing the desire to do the same to US citizens. WTF?
Tears down the checks and balances infrastructure. Destroys truth and disbands any institution that may hold him accountable.
Now ignores the highest courts orders and flaunts that like it’s a child’s game.
Anyone who still thinks these people are not fascist needs to introduce me to their drug dealer.
You gotta try to remember, This isn't Trump doing this.. I mean, he's clearly the figure head. No doubt. But frankly he's not smart enough to pull this off. This is the work of those at the Federalist Society and those that wrote Project 2025
I encourage you all to read P2025... Then watch how they rip down barriers....
#GMSTRONG
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Daniel Patrick Moynahan
"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe." Damanshot
Remember when we were saying there was going to be American citizens getting caught up in this and being illegally deported? And all the maga people here saying it nah, would never happen? Pffft happening.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
