Trump declares New York Times 'enemy of the people'

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: The Hill

President Trump on Wednesday labeled The New York Times "a true enemy of the people" one day after an extensive report detailing the ways in which he has sought to influence the investigations into his presidency and allies.

"The New York Times reporting is false," Trump tweeted. "They are a true ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!"

The president did not refute any specific reporting from the Times.

The newspaper reported Tuesday that Trump asked then-acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker late last year to put U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman in charge of the investigation in New York's Southern District into Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/430716-trump-declares-new-york-times-enemy-of-the-people

[C_U_L8R]

1. "Enemy of the People"???

What is this totalitarian talk? Does this trumpclown fancy himself some sort of Pol Pot Belly???

[LisaL]

3. Enemy of the people term was used by Stalin to send these "enemies" into

concentration camps or execute, without any actual evidence they did anything.

[onetexan]

9. yep, and this is his queue for his crazed followers to do violence towards

the target by labeling it such. We have a lawless idiot at the pinnacle of our government. This is increasingly clear with the sustained & constant attacks on the press and people who dare disclose his crimes, and his efforts to obstruct, that he is a Russian asset, and setting himself up to become a dictator like Putin.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

64. Don't forget that of his crazed followers

walked into the Capital Gazette last year and shot FIVE people dead after he had barricaded any possible escape route.

This man is a danger to us all. He refuses to take any responsibility for his words.

And his followers are as unstable as he is.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

70. Hitler did the same thing

The Nazis would imprison "enemies of the state" -- Staatesfiende -- or "enemies of the people" -- Fiende des Volkes, and execute them for these "crimes".

[olegramps]

15. The Free Press is the natural enemy of all dictators and want-a-be tyrants.

It is the very first thing that every dictator is determined to silence. As Jefferson remarked given the choice between a government without a free press and a free press without a government I would choose the later. Aristotle in his work on the survey of governments, some three hundred years before the birth of Jesus, similarly wrote that a functioning democracy had to have a thriving well informed middle class to survive or it would succumb to tyranny and oligarchy.

[Auggie]

34. President Pol Pot Belly!!!

[DownriverDem]

2. I, DownriverDem

declare trump as the enemy of the people. Since you want to play tit for tat, so be it.

[fascisthunter]

4. This Whackjob is attacking our Free Press

[MissMillie]

7. NEWSFLASH!!!

Well, maybe not... after all he's been doing this for a while...

https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/31/politics/donald-trump-veterans-announcement/index.html

[fascisthunter]

12. I deserved that

Just re-highlighting.

[justgamma]

21. The cons have been attacking

the "liberal media" for a long time. They never fail to add "liberal" to any mention of media. Dotard is just taking the natural next step. Have you noticed that is a Dem says something about a Con, it is dismissed? It only counts if a Con says it.

[bdamomma]

29. yes, and how many of his

followers are going to attack journalists and media outlets now. He needs to STFU.

[MissMillie]

5. He declares this and he declares that...

yawn...

His declarations don't amount to a pile of poo.

[thegoose]

6. Lashing and declaring

And remember this is a shitty game show host and two-bit conjob...

[djacq]

8. So says Individual-1 who got busted again.

[yuiyoshida]

10. He is becoming a raving Lunatic

seriously!

[Still In Wisconsin]

19. You're right.

If he's typing this stuff into Twitter and hitting "send" can you imagine what he's like when he's not on his phone? I suspect your "raving lunatic" characterization is probably very accurate.

[2naSalit]

23. Well...

Becoming may not be accurate here. Just sayin'.

[yuiyoshida]

24. What ever he has, has become worse...

yeah?

[2naSalit]

43. Yeah, I'll go with that.

It does get worse by the hour after alll.

[yuiyoshida]

50. Like every dumb Criminal

He will fuck up royally and that will be the end of his Presidency.. Just hope its sooner than later.

[2naSalit]

51. Agree...nt

[bdamomma]

54. hope so

Every wanna be dictator and dictator in past history has been brought down hopefully history will prevail again.

[bdamomma]

30. the closer Mueller

gets he will be totally out of control.

[yuiyoshida]

33. He already is out of control and about

to fire more people in this administration, like a good Russian Agent would.

[bdamomma]

36. this is serious

stuff, he is a sick fuck.

[yuiyoshida]

38. agreed.

totally,

[Bengus81]

11. Please...keep it up Trump. That many more will know how INSANE you are

[Firestorm49]

13. Spoken like the true fascist that he is.

[Turbineguy]

14. It should be "his" not "the".

And his people don't read the NYT because they use too many big words.

[olegramps]

16. You are giving them a lot of credit. Firstly can they read let alone comprehend what they read?

[Firestorm49]

17. LMAO

He’s pretty confused. Comes with senility. Trump is the enemy of the people, and his kids, and his staff, and his cabinet, and the entire complicit Repuglican party.

[Botany]

18. Did yesterday's NY Time's article get to Trump?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211843520

All of his lies are about to be exposed the public and Trump knows that.

"Mr. Trump has said that Russian meddling was fabricated “as an excuse by
the Democrats as to why Crooked Hillary Clinton” lost." from the article

Trump knows that Mueller, Schiff, and others will show that "Hillary lost" and he
"won" because of Russian actions and traitors inside of America.

Link to tweet

[Pachamama]

46. WTF???????

[Botany]

59. Russia tried to get into our voting machines and central tabulators in 39 states in 2016

Putin wasn't doing just to "look around."

[Pachamama]

60. [phone]

No, Putin wasn't doing it just to look around....

I also believe they were successful in getting into our voting machines and central tabulators in the key states that won Trump the Electoral Vote.....PA, WI, MI....

[Mr. Frost]

20. What I see in this..

Trump only wants truth he wants. So since the government can't make law, he calls on his citizen supporters to take them out. It's all about the foot soldiers.

[Doodley]

22. A Russian asset would do that.

[bdamomma]

31. +10000

nt

[maxrandb]

25. Every Fucking Retrumplican that stays silent

from Senate Majority Leader to local Dogcatcher is COMPLICIT in this shit!

[bdamomma]

26. STFU

he is a fucking asset of Russia. What needs to happen before he is removed from office.
He is guilty of treason.


Malcolm Nance is on Stephanie Miller. We need to stand up and confront it.

[itcfish]

27. This is such a dangerous

Comment made by a president of a democracy. God protect all NY Times employees.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

28. The NYT must be doing something right!

Or else Trump would not be reacting in such a manner.

[onetexan]

52. in deed, NYT has been pricking the Idiot and got under his skin

he is obviously enraged right now with this latest article, and is showing the world how dangerous he can be

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

32. I think it's time to create an "Enemy of the People" trophy.

NYT can host it in their trophy case, at least for a while. There are so many other deserving contenders.

[Bayard]

35. How much of the Constitution has he stomped on now?

What's it going to take to rid ourselves of this monster? I don't see how we can wait another year.

Hell, if he doesn't get re-elected, he could declare THAT a national emergency to stay in power, with Putin pushing. Expect everyone on his Enemies List to be jailed. Think that can't happen? Did you ever imagine we'd be in our current situation?

[Docreed2003]

37. When is the country going to stand up against this crap??

This is just yet another vicious, ridiculous attack on the free press of this country and, best I can tell, his base just eats this shit up and believes it!! This authoritarian crap needs to be stopped

[bdamomma]

55. his base is in the minority

we are majority we can do some damage we did in the mid-term, but this will take massive mobilization to take this jerk down.

[gohuskies]

39. This is the language of a tyrant

tRump has gone to the well of tyranny now that he feels the walls closing in on him and his entire rotten to the core family and cabal of oligarchs and complicit rethuglican co-conspirators. We need this madness to stop. Along with that we have his puppet master Pootie threatening to aim missiles at us.

[EleanorR]

40. Any republicans criticizing his attacks on a Free Press? Or are they ok being an autocracy?

Trump sounds more like Erdogan every day. This is well worth a read if folks think trump demonizes the press just because he's nuts.

“People might say, ‘Turkey never had a free press and the rule of law was never there.’ But it literally took a decade and a half to come here,” Başaran said. Western democracies ought to see what happened in her country as a warning, she added. “When you look at Poland, Hungary, and now the U.S., I do see distinct similarities in how these illiberal populist governments operate. It’s the same rhetoric.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/destroying-free-press-erdogan-turkey/568402/

[bronxiteforever]

41. Kick and recommend for visibility

The only history he knows is Nazi history

“According to a 1990 Vanity Fair interview, Ivana Trump once told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that her husband, real-estate mogul Donald Trump, now a leading Republican presidential candidate, kept a book of Hitler's speeches near his bed.

"Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed ... Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist," Marie Brenner wrote.

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8

“It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.”


― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

[keithbvadu2]

42. The enemy? Really?

[elleng]

44. 'The president did not refute any specific reporting from the Times.'

Surprise!!!

[jmowreader]

45. I hope you guys do realize...

...that on 1-20-2021, we’re going to have to send Delta Force and SEAL Team 6 into the White House to get him out of there.

[keithbvadu2]

48. Just put down a trail of Big Macs and KFC leading away from the WH.

[jmowreader]

49. I prefer the direct approach

We send in 12 Delta guys and 12 SEALs. They find him, wrap him in duct tape, carry him to the sidewalk, gently set him on the curb, remove the tape, call him a cab and tell him, “now you don’t come back, you understand?”

[Dem2theMax]

65. And then send the HazMat team in to fumigate the place.

I cannot wait for us to be rid of him.

I sincerely hope he gets to spend the rest of his life behind bars. I know I will sleep a lot better when he is sleeping on a really cheap mattress. And I'm sure it will have had a lot of pee on it.

[jmowreader]

66. Now hold on there, hoss

In the prison he needs to go to, they don't give you a mattress at all. It's just a slab of concrete.

[Dem2theMax]

67. Even better!

And now that I think of it, his 'executive time' throne will be quite public to anyone walking by.

Is something wrong with me that I get perverse pleasure in thinking of this?

[yaesu]

47. tRump, you are not "the people", you are the enemy of "the people" nt

[Harker]

53. They are the enemy of the people...

Who are defrauding the citizenry of the US... Trumpsky and Co.

[Eko]

56. That right there is enough for impeachment. eom.

[Vermijelli]

57. What a responsible thing to say n/t

[Maxheader]

58. Aaw common stumpy..

A little embellishment here, a slight exaggeration there...

You of all people should understand those things..

traitor...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

61. What ever you say Mister "3 million votes less than Hillary"

[BlueIdaho]

62. The only enemy I see

Is that motherfucker in the White House.

[gldstwmn]

63. When some patriot leaks the Mueller report

because these traitors tried to bury it look away folks! Look away!

[truthisfreedom]

68. Who gives a flying fuck? He spews. He's a fount of bullshit.

[duforsure]

69. Coming from a serial liar, and career corrupt criminal

His attacks on anyone opposing him, or exposing him as an enemy , and the truth getting out is his biggest threat to him now. Putin did this in russia also. trump attacks anyone who exposes all his propaganda and lies, and ties to putin and russia. That's what criminals do.