As much as we hate the media, the idea of the President wanting to change the law to make it easier for him to censor the media should scare us more.
Vigorous free debate has always been a cornerstone of America. The fact that Trump is announcing that he wants to crack down on this confirms everything that I have feared about his authoritarian tendencies. We need a president not a strongman or dictator.
Please, I am begging any of you Trump supporters who also care about our freedom to reconsider your support for this man.
begging .. LOL
If what is said is provably wrong, sue their @sses.
Actually I agree.
I’d want it done intelligently, but the US media is a propaganda arm of the Uniparty. They lie and they are focused on manipulating society for purely evil ends.
If the media tell lies I want them stopped. Adjustments to the Libel laws sounds like an excellent idea to me.
That’s positively frightening.
Goodbye first amendment under President Trump.
Smart guy, huh?
The election is what, five months before the election?
That will be five months for the media to unload every barrel they have prepared in their entire arsenal.
It’s not an attack on free speech. It’s an attack on deliberate, criminal lies.
The news media have different laws from the rest of us. They can get away with blatant, deliberate lies and not be sued for libel. And they do it, constantly. Against decent people and in support of their communist principles.
What he’s saying is that the news media don’t deserve to have a special privilege to tell dirty lies that is denied to the rest of us.
Good, we’ll finally be able to deal with DAN RATHER, CANDY CROWLEY, and all of the other animals that hide behind media cover and collude with the Democrats.
It is ABOUT TIME!
It’s called the First Amendment, Donny. It protects free political speech. #Trumpelthinskin
If Mark Steyn can be sued by the idiot “hockey stick” guy, why can’t WaPo or the NYT be sued for far worse?
Watch his minions here agree with him.
Say the following was written about you?
This prevents the BIG SLIME (followed by the p 10 small print retraction).
There will be a special government department set up to approve all news stories. It will be called The Ministry of Truth.
Amazing what he gets away saying.
If Hillary said the same thing; there would be 18 threads here raising the (correct) alarm.
Donny is thinking of reinstituting the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798.
Well, if they're losing money because of their dishonesty, then let the natural course of capitalism run its course.
As president, is he going to change those laws using a pen and a phone?
Jim, please take a look at what Trump said yesterday about wanting to change the libel laws to make it easier for him to sue media organizations that he thinks have slandered him. This is chilling stuff that could affect FR if Trump was able to implement it.
That can backfire for sure. Freedom of the press is an expressed right and freedom the feds have not right to curtail. Trump’s blowing smoke on this one.
The media is biased. Abusively biased. But they're paying for it already by declining viewer and readership and a majority do not trust them anymore when it comes to political news.
All this happened without tinkering with the First Amendment In their worship of the Donald, they don't think of the ramifications this has for now and the future