Trump Says Freedom of the Press Must Go Because He’s ‘Not Like Other People’

[KamaAina]

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/02/27/trump-freedom-press-not-people.html

We have been witness to Donald Trump’s hostility toward anyone who is at all critical of him, even if it is only to the extent of asking him questions, or accurately quoting him. This has morphed into something more with reports that the live feed cables from MSNBC and CNN were tampered with during a Trump event.

More ominously, Donald Trump wants to be able to take legal action against those he thinks are unkind in their reporting. Friday in Texas, Trump revealed his utter disdain for the First Amendment’s freedom of the press, proclaiming that he’s “gonna open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money.”

He complained to the crowd, as he sold them his own pack of lies, “I think the media is among the most dishonest groups of people I’ve ever met. They’re terrible.”

That’s some claim coming from one of the 21st century’s foremost liars. The solution to people reporting unwelcome facts about him, Trump says, is to tear up the First Amendment and start suing the media silly. This claim earned him thunderous applause. Nobody hates critics of Donald Trump more than Donald Trump than his cultists.

Got fascism?

[spanone]

1. yet his entire schtick is media created

[roamer65]

2. Keep digging, Drumpf.

You may actually get to China.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Not exactly a constitutional scholar

[Adsos Letter]

4. This whole thing can't be real.

It just can't.

[sarcasmo]

5. Never doubt, Orange Hitler is one Bat Shit crazy dude.

[egduj]

6. It's not such an unpopular sentiment as it might seem...

True, it's not worded as bluntly, but it's phrased in other ways such as "Bring back the fairness doctrine" or similar words. It's two sides of the same coin.

[Gabi Hayes]

13. r u out of your mind?

????

[Wednesdays]

15. Not out of their mind...

just libertarian as anyone could possibly imagine.

[GulfCoast66]

7. There are many members here

Who want the government to oversee what broadcast media air to insure it is fair. Perhaps a majority.

[Johonny]

8. Form Fox news special guest pundit that spent how long on the long form birth certificate business?

When Trump was the "news person" he libeled more than anyone so he should just shut up because the first person to sue if this came to pass would be Obama suing him.

[Quantess]

9. Fascist.

K & R

[SunSeeker]

10. K & R for exposure.

[King_Klonopin]

11. It is becoming more obvious with each passing day

All of Donald Trump's utterances, fiats, ejaculations, or whatever you wish to call them
are simply his deepest fantasies being expressed out loud -- his fantasies about what
he would do, and could do, if he were The Supreme Ruler of The World. Every one
of his outrageously haughty quotes reveals one more facet of this very sick, grandiose,
self-absorbed mind. And they get more egregious with each passing day.

All of his flaws and transgressions can be distilled down to one, root problem:
Extreme and pathological VANITY. I have never witnessed a more vain character
on the world's political stage. If he weren't so vulgar, he would be Shakespearean.

I believe that his ego is salivating, and that he is truly in the throes of a child's fantasy
of being The Supreme Ruler of The World. This is a narcissist's dream come true -- having
the unchallenged and total authority to force everyone in the world to bow down to you and
to submit to your ego-driven whims.

Trump must be feeling justified and entitled, beyond his usual sense of entitlement, to
express all of the megalomaniacal fantasies which he has kept hidden within his creepy,
maggot-infested mind and well out of the view of the public eye. He stands at the precipice
of being elected POTUS -- one of the more powerful positions in the real world -- which is
no mere child's fantasy. The intoxication that comes with this level of power has to be too
much for him to contain.



"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher, "Vanity of vanities! All is vanity." -- Ecclesiastes 1:2

[book_worm]

12. It's all about money with that bastard.

[imanamerican63]

14. Sounds someone is getting mad?

No temperament to run anything! I am shocked that he says he worth 10 billion, no not really!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

16. Of course he want unlimited right to sue. Although he exaggerates how much money he does have,

he certainly has more than most people, and, unfortunately, having the most money all too often is equivalent to having the best chance of willing (or even fighting) the case.

We often talk of getting money out of politics. What about getting money out of the judicial system?

[gratuitous]

17. I guess we have the answer to Mr. Khan's rhetorical question

And no, the Fairness Doctrine is not like Trump's rantings.

[axiom3]

18. It appears that Khizr Khan was 100% right about Don

DJT is nothing more than a wannabe dictator with NO understanding of how our constitution works. His speech at the RNC, where he presented himself as the only solution to America's ills, is proof of this. Yet despite Trump's authoritarian tendencies, 40% of this country's population is more than willing to vote for this maniac.

May God help us all in America and the rest of the world if this fascist somehow steals the election, and appoints himself President for Life. The idea of Trump having his finger near the nuke button is a truly terrifying prospect.

[Initech]

19. Freedom of speech is for stupid losers! I have the best speech! Nobody has better speech than I do!