Trump Is Now Openly Trying to Censor His Critics. He May Succeed.
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Over the course of his presidency, Donald Trump has made thousands of false , offensive, and damaging claims that could hurt his reelection odds. Democrats plan to use these statements as campaign fodder through the November election. On Wednesday, the Trump campaign adopted a new tactic to neutralize these attacks: It threatened to sue critics of the president in a brazen effort to censor Trump’s opponents into silence. Any real legal action is unlikely to hold up against the First Amendment. But Trump doesn’t need to succeed in court in order to win.
This threat came in the form of a cease and desist letter sent to television broadcast stations across the country. The letter orders these networks to stop airing an ad created by Priorities USA, a Democratic Super PAC. That ad, “Existential Threat,” juxtaposes Trump’s many dismissive comments about the pandemic with a chart tracking the rising number of infections in the United States. It ends with one line of text: “America needs a leader we can trust.”
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But it doesn’t really matter what Trump meant, because the Priorities USA ad is obviously core political speech, fully protected by the First Amendment. Trump’s campaign suggests that it may seek to punish networks that air the ad in two ways: suing for defamation and urging the Federal Communications Commission to revoke their license. Although both approaches are deeply troubling assaults on free expression, and may chill constitutionally protected expression, neither is likely to succeed.
We have a leader we trust right now. We are prepared to go to the mat to defend him and re elect him.
Weird how the right is so eager to throw the constitution under the bus as soon as their leader tries to circumvent it's purpose.
It's a free country but I find it pretty sad that you trust someone that's told over 16,000 lies in three years.
Signs of a fascist dictator:
1) Silence/control/discredit the media.
2) Hide personal assets.
3) Keep family close to the administration.
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Trump has assaulted the free press since he took office. What he calls, "fake news", is usually a factual piece about trump that makes him look bad. The press is doing their job, trump is just a lying POS with literally no leadership skills at all. Not the press's fault. Trump just wants to silence any media that doesn't post daily pieces dripping with adulation for, "Dear Leader". Trump doesn't believe in the US Constitution, in fact, his DOJ has been quietly trying to 'suspend' the US Constitution until the coronavirus has passed...but lets be honest, as soon as it's suspended with trump in office, it will never be "reinstated". But that's another subject.
Well your messiah dear leader lord Barry waged war on Fox News non stop.
When did he send a cease a desist letter? Did he ever take any legal action to silence them, or prevent them from reporting things that made Obama look bad?
No.
Also, do not ever tell me who my messiah is. Only warning. Discuss the article, not people.
At Michigan's Henry Ford Hospital
I will never ever stop referring to Obama as a false messiah,.
Fox doesn't do news. Fox is nothing but a far right wing propaganda outlet.
The Fake News is working overtime. Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake). Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt? Take away credentials?
Rump admits that when he says “fake news”, he means any press that is negative towards him.
He is a complete ass.
He is a fascist socialist. If ya look it up, dottard donny fits the description to a "T".
Stop with the transference to Trump the key trait of his domestic opposition.
You do realize that those are rump's own words on his own twitter feed, right?
He wants them silenced claiming they are "inaccurate". He still gets to remain on even though a lot of what he puts out is inaccurate.
If you look closely, he only RETALIATED against the "press" that have gone nonstop at him with false information.
So it's joke day?
The same could be said about Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff.... But for some reason you are willing to ignore their lies and go into freakout mode over ONE politician.
The rest of your "statement" equates to the typical leftist blathering we've heard since Novemver 2016.
Not true. According to Trump, the press he considers to be "negative" towards him he calls "False". The press isn't actually false, he just doesn't like what they have to say. His own words.
Their not actually true. Press outlets like CNN and MSNBC have been railing against him and throwing their support 100% behind his opposition. And have been supporting that same opposition since. And the lemming crowd have lapped up every bit of Kool-aid they have made.
But you go ahead and show me where they weren't "actually false".
I'm saying that Trump labels anything that he perceives as negative, as being false. Do you agree with that Jeremy? That if someone says something negative, it should be considered as untrue?
Virtually every single thing trump has claimed was fake news, has turned out to be true. Stormy Daniels comes to mind as one of those stories that was, "Total fake news by the fake news media"....which we now know was 100% accurate. The list is really long.
If I must... The joke is that trump is pissed that the media reports what he says. Joke? Not really, more of a factual statement. Sorry, I tried.
All politicians lie, that's a simple fact. Another fact is that between the three of them, they are nowhere even close to the number of lies trump has told...it's no contest.
Well, then allow me to retort.
You are doing what rightists have been doing since trump took office; as soon as trump does something wrong? Just blame the left. Cleaning up after trumps lying cocksucker must be a full time job.
But on another note, I know you are into cars.. Give this guy a look, funny and good with cars.
Vice Grip Garage.
1) Not true.
2) Did you have a problem with it when fox fake news and brietfart went after Obama, every single day for 8 fucking years? Nope.
Then prove me wrong.
It's cute you think I rely on the train wreck people call "news" outlets. Not a single one reported news in over a decade. Fox went after Barry, CNN & (P)MSNBC went after Donnie. And all for what? Partisan bullshit and agendas.
I'm not buying the outrage. If Trump were just ranting that the ad was telling lies about him, his critics would dare him to go to court. That's exactly what the letter threatens to do. There's no executive action threatened. They just say the ad is knowingly spreading lies and they will seek a remedy in court. It's all perfectly legal. Trump might win and he might lose. That's the legal process.
The ad is nothing but his own words. What is the lie? If anything it leaves it to the listener to provide a conclusion.
The ad has a point of view, but every political ad does. There are no lies here.
That's fine. That's a valid point of view. Let the parties argue the matter in front of a judge. No need to act like the 1st Amendment is under assault.
Trump should create a national media bias fact check and create ratings to limit the exposure of sources and sites that they rate by their system questionable or propaganda.
Another one wanting to throw out the constitution, and censor news organizations they don't like.
Exactly. That is the third member in the last 24 hours to make this sorta suggestion.Truly frightening.
How is what I facetiously suggested there any different than what actually happens here?
If I really meant for our national leaders to replicate here I’d agree with you in full.
another who didn’t notice media bias fact check embedded in my post.
You are the second person in 24 hours to make such a suggestion and then claim you were being facetious. I don't believe you. I think you would like it if rump were in control of the media,,,,wouldn't you?
As well, unlike our country, The NewsTalkers is not a Democracy.
Oh I noticed alright. So tell me, would rump or his lackeys be the ones deciding what is media bias?
There is no censorship here on the site. You can post from most publications. We have a community standard in place though.
Why do you despise facts so much?
I dunno, you will have to ask DJTF as I was responding to his comment.
No. We use MBFC which allows both right and left wing media.
Great tool.
Trump is the most politically divisive and partisan president this country has ever had. Do you REALLY think he would be unbiased in this instance? Never in a million years, it would literally be every publication in the country that supports him as factual and any publication that has ever said anything negative, (but factual), against trump would be shut down.
Really, REALLY piss poor idea, HA. Next time, just say you don't want freedom of speech.
I would love to agree with you here. But, as recent events have proven, this is simply not true.
Well because you stated "Isn't community standard code for "news organizations they don't like."
Her response is an explanation of what standard we use to determine a site or story's credibility. We don't include/exclude sites on the basis of what we "like", but rather use MBFC to help negotiate the extreme falsehoods found online.
Nah, C'mon man, explain that.
What standard would you use if you ran a blogging site? How would you determine what is credible?
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You can only IMPASSE if you have engaged in direct exchange with an individual and that individual has had the last word.
In short, you cannot comment in a thread and then try to IMPASSE an individual in the thread; the individual you IMPASSE must have the last word.
Finally, you cannot IMPASSE the seeder / author.
there is a button for impasse. Here is the link for the CoC where it explains how it works.
,,,or if you read the comment above inside your comment, you will also see instructions to guide you through the process.