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dalton99a

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5. Here's one:

Reply to Bayard (Reply #3)

Fri Sep 19, 2025, 07:45 PM

Sep 2025

“I’m a very strong person for free speech,” the president replied. “But 97, 94, 95, 96% of the people are against me in the sense of the newscasts are against me. The stories are– they said 97% bad. So, they gave me 97, they’ll take a great story, and they’ll make it bad. See, I think that’s really illegal, personally.”

It is unclear where Trump got the 97% figure from. Even if true, such criticism is protected speech under the First Amendment.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-claims-excessive-criticism-him-215408859.html

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