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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump plots to "imprison significant numbers of reporters" if he wins in 2024
Amid speculation that former U.S. President Donald Trump will announce his 2024 run next week, Rolling Stone reported Tuesday that the Republican leader has sought advice about how he could ramp up his war with the news media by jailing journalists if he regains control of the White House.
Trump's first presidential campaign and four years in office featured constant attacks on reporters, outlets, and the industry in general, from his frequent declarations of "fake news" to going after journalists for reporting on leaked information.
"This year, as Trump has privately strategized about what a second term, potentially starting in 2025, could look like, he's begun occasionally soliciting ideas from conservative allies for how the U.S. government and Justice Department could go about turning his desiresfor brutally imprisoning significant numbers of reportersinto reality," Rolling Stone revealed.
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As the magazine detailed:
Several months ago, the former president briefly asked a small gathering of his allies and at least one of his attorneys about what would have to be done to make that authoritarian, First Amendment-shredding vision a norm, according to a source who was present.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-plots-to-imprison-significant-numbers-of-reporters-if-he-wins-in-2024-report/ar-AA13UyVb
Still a delusional dumbass.
republianmushroom
(13,704 posts)Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001
honest.abe
(8,685 posts)He should be in jail.
Blue Owl
(50,514 posts)Fuck that fat sack of shit
beaglelover
(3,495 posts)I hope they do nominate him for 2024, we'll win in a fucking landslide and probably get super majorities in both houses!
peggysue2
(10,842 posts)This is a clear shot across the bow.
If the US were to ever reelect this fool or substitute his ass for mini-me rival DaSantis this will be the outcome--journalists' heads will be first on the chopping block. Because that's how fascists roll by weaponizing the levers of government against enemies and shutting down the free press.
All these authoritarian types are saying the quiet parts out loud. It's well past time to start listening.
patricia92243
(12,603 posts)in the WH, but the press still do the hero worship thing on everything Trump says or does. They will put him in the WH again because they can't resist a fast buck - but then they will get their head cut off.
peggysue2
(10,842 posts)The guillotine is in their future. I just don't get it beyond that too many of these corporate-owned outlets are only looking at the bottom line, eyeballs and clicks = $$$, and journalists are access obsessed and think they're somehow above the fray.
The future of the country? Not so much. Short-sighted? Absolutely.
Downright suicidal, IMO
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)living for hate and revenge.
What a sham of a life.
FlyingPiggy
(3,384 posts)PlanetBev
(4,104 posts)What country does he think hes in?
Boomerproud
(7,968 posts)and the drama continues.
magicarpet
(14,175 posts)... he does not wish to just worship strongmen dictators and despots. This time he actually wants to be one.
TRump worships and envies all these strongmen,..
Hitler,
Mussolini,
Putin,
Kim Jong Un,
Duterte,
Erdogan,
Bolsonaro.